NPCThe C'tan Shard was destroyed. The shadow of calamity threatening the Koronus Expanse should the ancient god ever be unshackled had been lifted... at least, for a time.
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NPCIf rumours are to be believed, the madness that permeated the Rogue Trader's ship had struck the Seneschal's mind as well. Eyewitnesses to his agony spoke of the voice of his beloved and dearly missed spouse Quatharina beginning to haunt his every step. At first, the esteemed Seneschal welcomed the insanity that overcame him. Then, he ran from it in terror, trying to drown out his wife's voice in the barking of orders and the screams of castigated crew members. The sight of the grave officer, dishevelled, uniform covered in filth, with a power cleaver in one hand and a clanging ship's bell in the other, filled his subordinates with dread.
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NPCThe short life of the entity named Nomos ended on Epitaph. The young being was devoured by its maker, perishing in the very whirlwind of C'tan Shard energies that once spawned it, devoured by their own creator. It was not in the nature of the star vampires to willingly give or gift. Predatory consumption was their primary instinct, and thus Nomos were ordered to cease existing and merge in a stream of obedient energy with the mighty body of the ancient deity.
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Entry point 12 of 593
NPCThe Great Judgement of Incendia Chorda and the atrocities committed by her confessional units bled Footfall dry. The station soon faced a labour shortage, and few survivors of the religious purges could handle the increased workloads. Without thrones from the Cold Trade, the station fell into decay. Footfall entered an era of piety, hunger, and hardship.
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Entry point 13 of 593
NPCAfter recovering from Chorda's regime, Footfall reclaimed its status as the trading hub of the Expanse. Having learned a bitter lesson, Vladaym Tocara created the Footfall Partisans' Militia — a well-equipped mercenary army that answered only to him. A modicum of order returned to the station.
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NPCYet cruelty, intolerance, and corruption grew like festering sores throughout the sector. Only the Rogue Trader's constant oversight could keep the pestilence at bay.
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NPCThe von Valancius dynasty was given the privilege of becoming the stewards of the Expanse. The Rogue Trader led many campaigns of conquest against xenos enclaves and heretic nests. Karrad Vall, an infamous disciple of the Ruinous Powers, gathered forces in corrupted systems to challenge the Defender of the Creed. A great confrontation was unavoidable.
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Entry point 16 of 593
NPCUrbend Drivestem cared more about preserving the influence of his line than the well-being of the protectorate. His blind ambition lost him his governor's seat and the respect of his family. Within a few generations, one of the largest houses of Dargonus turned into an obscure family of petty aristocrats.
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Entry point 17 of 593
NPCThe C'tan Shard, a deity from a forgotten era, was enslaved by the Rogue Trader. The Empyrean above the Koronus Expanse trembled, touched by the winds of great change.
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Entry point 18 of 593
NPCThe mutiny was mercilessly suppressed by the united forces of Navigators loyal to Cassia and von Valancius enforcers. But the price of even a failed rebellion was too high for House Orsellio, which lost half of its influence overnight and thereafter operated entirely under the aegis of the Rogue Trader, a Navigator House in name only.
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NPCHaving lost its leader and lacking a worthy successor, the Chorda dynasty began to weaken. The grim legacy of the abominable Aspyce revealed itself, and the protectorate fell into chaos. Grasping claimants tore the defenceless demesne apart.
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Entry point 20 of 593
NPCIncendia Chorda continued her merciless fight against the heresies plaguing the Expanse. Not concerning herself with notions of jurisdiction, she brought the Imperium's justice everywhere she went, killing heretics by the thousands. Stained-glass windows with her likeness illuminated by bonfires graced the sector's chapels. With her tightening grip of fear, the prayers of the pious became ever more fervent in their reverence of the Gracious Chastiser.
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Entry point 21 of 593
NPCHaving learned a bitter lesson on Footfall, Incendia Chorda let go of her fanatical zeal. Relinquishing the reins of power, she secluded herself on a cloister world. The time of purges passed — and with it, the time of law and order. In the power vacuum that followed, the dark legacy of the abominable Aspyce reared its ugly head, and Incendia's dominion gradually devolved into a nest of criminals and pirates.
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NPCOne day, Yrliet returned to find the elantach on his/her deathbed — her search had taken decades, yet decades pass without notice for Aeldari. Yrliet spent the elantach's final days with him/her, and when the time came for death to place its hand on the Rogue Trader's shoulder, she sank into his/her world one last time. The elantach, young again, looked at her and smiled. Tears burned Yrliet's skin, and then the dim light of the human soul faded. Yrliet touched the elantach's wrist to check his/her pulse. She closed her eyes, sighed, and left the von Valancius protectorate, never to return.
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Entry point 23 of 593
NPCNomos did not have long to learn their new powers. At the bidding of the Dark Gods, [Name] von Valancius imprisoned them within the Yoke, turning them into his/her shackled monster. The strange entity, imbued with a sliver of a Star God's power, was beyond the reach of the rulers of the warp. And, as such, they were dangerous and destined to be enslaved.
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Entry point 24 of 593
NPCEvayne Winterscale underwent his Magnae Accessio and became his dynasty's new Rogue Trader. Many said that noble Evayne lacked firmness of judgement, yet he had more than enough trust, even in those who were unworthy of it. The young Rogue Trader did not forget those who had saved him from the Rykad System or the favours that House von Valancius had bestowed on the Winterscales.
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Entry point 25 of 593
NPCThe subjugated deity in House von Valancius's service ensured the Imperium's firm grip on the Expanse's throat. By eradicating enemies and unbelievers, the Rogue Trader bestowed a gift upon the sector — of faith in the certainty of retribution.
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Entry point 26 of 593
NPCWhen the Rogue Trader rebelled against the Imperium, he/she united heretics and enemies of the Creed in the Expanse around him/her. No one was brave enough to challenge the master/mistress of the enslaved stellar beast. Under the Rogue Trader's iron rule, a new legion of the Ruinous Powers was forming, welded together by fear and obedience.
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Entry point 27 of 593
NPCProtecting the young kingdom of freedom, Nomos created dimensional barriers that cut the Koronus Expanse off from the Imperium more soundly than the Great Rift. The Humanity of the Expanse was left in isolation. Relying only on themselves, they either had to build something new and different from the Imperium or fall to the horrors lurking in the darkness.
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Entry point 28 of 593
NPCThe Cult of Saint Drusus continued its indefatigable struggle to spread the faith around the Expanse and expose the vile transgressions of the authorities. The stronger and wealthier a planet was, the less its rulers wanted to see the black-clad preachers. Riots and assassinations pushed the cult to the place where it felt most confident — the frontier.
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Entry point 29 of 593
NPCThe C'tan Shard was transmuted into a new form, and their name was Nomos. Possessing the power of an ancient being and nurtured by the Rogue Trader, the young Star God watched over the Koronus Expanse, their new domain, with curiosity.
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Entry point 30 of 593
NPCAfter the death of Reverend Hieronymus Doloroso, a man called Chaplain took over the leadership of the Drusian mission. He hid his name, but not his crimes or his piratical past. With the resolve of an experienced voidfarer, he steered the cult and even led his fellow believers on military expeditions against brigands, enforcing order and converting depraved captives to the faith.
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Entry point 31 of 593
NPCThe deals struck by the Cognisance Fleet and the von Valancius dynasty replenished the Explorators' dwindling supplies and allowed them to re-embark on a rapid and unrelenting expansion campaign. With powerful bases established in the Expanse, the Omnissiah's scouts bravely ventured forth toward unnamed stars with the same drive that propelled their ancestors to explore the Expanse itself.
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Entry point 32 of 593
NPCMagos Dominus Opticon-22 was sent to the forward scouting squadron by the fleet conclave. The reason for this was the discovery of the support he secretly stored in his computing blocks for the Discontinuing of the Cycle. His ship disappeared without a trace in a research raid.
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Entry point 33 of 593
NPCCassia Orsellio renounced her destiny of becoming the Novator and chose to spend her days with her beloved. She lived a short life, trying to fill every moment spent together with colour and passion. Alas, Cassia's genetic mutations did not allow her to bear an heir, and soon they began grotesquely deforming her body. One night, she gave her lover a kiss and disappeared forever, leaving behind a short note: "My love, from our first meeting to our final days together, you were the only morning light that shone in my heart, never fading. You have a life ahead of you — live it happily, for both of us. As for me... I love you endlessly. Yours, Cass."
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Entry point 34 of 593
NPCThe crisis in the Expanse dealt a serious blow to the business interests of the Fellowship of the Void. Having no powerful allies, they retreated into the darkness of frontier systems. The hard life they faced there forged them into a new tribe — furious, wild, and willing to do anything for survival. They swore to return and retake what had once been theirs.
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Entry point 35 of 593
NPCPerceiving themselves as an entity deeply beholden to the Emperor, at the very least on account of their unholy existence, Nomos exterminated corruption with extra zeal, sometimes razing entire worlds. Weaknesses of human nature, such as doubt, mercy, or self-loathing, were unknown to the God-Emperor's perfect Beast.
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Entry point 36 of 593
NPCThe C'tan Shard and its merciless and enlightened harbinger, once bearing the name of [Name] von Valancius, left the Koronus Expanse. The trivial concerns of short-lived species were of no interest to them. Stellar winds carried them to other dimensions, toward deeds befitting their wisdom and glory. The echoes of these deeds will ripple through the universe, fracturing the bones of existence as we know it.
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Entry point 37 of 593
NPCReturning victorious, the Lord Inquisitor entrusted the heavy burden of watching over the Expanse to his loyal ally from the von Valancius dynasty. For him, it was time to change.
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Entry point 38 of 593
NPCVladaym Tocara, as Liege of Footfall, survived fourteen assassination attempts and thwarted no less than two thousand schemers before a shot finally took his life. The esteemed Liege's funeral was held in great secrecy with only his closest entourage being permitted to view his corpse, which spawned some peculiar rumours.
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Entry point 39 of 593
NPCWhen Octaviana became the new leader of the Kasballica Mission, she made every effort to not end up like Vladaym. The Mission's leadership demanded profits, and Chorda's enforcers thirsted for blood. Octaviana's dilemma sorted itself out when one day all of Footfall's Cold Traders were arrested and herded onto the Adeptus Amasecus. The ship was undocked from the station and left to drift toward Furibundus with no fuel and almost no air. Octaviana was not on board. She had made a deal to turn over all her accomplices, and she disappeared with a fortune in thrones.
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Entry point 40 of 593
NPCTime spent on the same world as mon-keigh pushed the Farseer Muaran toward reflection. When the Webway Gate awoke on Janus and squads of Aeldari rangers stepped onto their ancestors' world, he averted a bloodbath. Granting the Lilaethan and its new and naive citizens his blessing, he disappeared through a shining portal, departing for a new home.
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Entry point 41 of 593
NPCSuch was the echo of the deeds of the Rogue Trader of House von Valancius. Deeds that transformed the Koronus Expanse and prepared it for events even darker and more violent. But those are the events of a different story. This one has come to an end.
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Entry point 42 of 593
NPCGuarded luxurious palaces were built under the climate domes, shrouded by clouds of poison. They housed so many powerful blackguards, persecuted aristocrats, and wealthy scoundrels that Vheabos VI gained unimaginable political influence. Such grand and sinister deeds were done there that before long the grim death world was spoken of as the new political centre of the Expanse.
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Entry point 43 of 593
NPCThe shackled monster under von Valancius's control ensured the survival of the fledgling utopia. The Star God destroyed all who threatened its peaceful civilians and instilled fear in those of little faith. The Expanse tasted the sweet fruit of freedom and tolerance with reverent fear.
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Entry point 44 of 593
NPCRumours and stories of his/her humanitarian rule formed the foundation of the Valancean school of philosophy. The sect united commoners and aristocrats in the belief that for the Imperium to flourish, it should stop seeing its subjects as mere tools. This dangerous heresy was denounced in many systems, but persecutions only hardened and multiplied its followers.
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Entry point 45 of 593
NPCLegend has it that the God-Emperor Himself favoured His steward, granting him/her a miraculous power to crush evil, and shielding him/her from enemy plots. The truth is that the Ecclesiarchy, in its battle to control narratives in the Imperium, persecuted those who spread such tall tales, as well as those who demanded that the Rogue Trader be proclaimed a living saint.
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Entry point 46 of 593
NPCMarshal Anthar faced Argenta's rage armed and ready. Having foreseen this course of events from the beginning, Solomorne was able to protect many innocent lives from the all-consuming wrath of the mad Sister of Battle. He himself only faced his former comrade in arms once. The encounter left him without his right arm.
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Entry point 47 of 593
NPCIn a half-lit armoury, with no grand ceremony or public fanfare, the dagger adorned with the skull and pillar was melted down and reforged into an Inquisitor Insignia. Xavier Calcazar granted it to the Rogue Trader and inducted him/her into the Koronus Conclave, a fellowship of guardians of the Imperium privy to Humanity's darkest secrets.
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Entry point 48 of 593
NPCMysterious xeno-anomalies plagued Janus for many years. The ghosts of the inhumans who had controlled the planet continued to haunt the land. The serfs suffered from strange maladies, and the agri-complexes were inexplicably struck by blight and famine. The servants of the Rogue Trader feared the ghastly planet and sought to be transferred off the filthy agrarian colony at the first opportunity.
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Entry point 49 of 593
NPCThe Rogue Trader's betrayal of the Emperor's faith was so vile that His statue on Footfall bled from the eyes for three Terran days. Red, crimson tears freezing into crystals in the frigid void. It was a sign of the calamities to come. Millions of people heeded preachers' warnings and boarded voidships to travel to the Maw and find shelter in the Imperium's provinces. Not a single one of those ships made it to Port Wander.
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NPCThe abominable betrayal by the Rogue Trader showed everyone how dangerous his/her so-called "ideals of mercy" were. Indulging in mercy was but a short step away from embracing moral depravity outright. The Expanse learned this lesson well, and the word "mercy" was never again uttered there.
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NPCThe Dark Gods were enraged by their champion's betrayal, so quick to accept their generous gifts, and yet so eager to treacherously abandon them for a new master. However, neither the wrath of the masters of the Immaterium nor the weapons of their loyal warriors could harm the one protected by the power of a true deity.
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NPCYears later, when the Rogue Trader's body could no longer contain his/her mortal soul, he/she was granted one last boon. For his/her wicked deeds, atrocious sacrifices, and unspeakable oaths, the Ruinous Powers lifted him/her to the Empyrean, where they transformed him/her into an abhorrent Daemon Prince. The Great Ascension was complete.
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Entry point 53 of 593
NPCFoulstone grew and continued to draw believers to it under the enlightened rule of the Rogue Trader. Alas, not every soul among them was pure: preachers of degenerate interpretations of the Imperial Creed, false prophets, and madmen also came, hoping to find a flock on the holy world. Fighting dangerous heresies like the Neomalpian sect led to regular bloody purges that earned Foulstone a grim reputation.
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Entry point 54 of 593
NPCAfter witnessing the deeds of Marshal Anthar, Vizsier Kibellah asked the cards about his fate. The very next day, a spinner was assigned to him, tasked solely with protecting Solomorne from any and all assassination attempts. These were not long in coming, and the spinner's blade soon tasted the blood of heretics. For his part, the Marshal, after accidentally discovering that he had an invisible protector, had the spinner arrested and executed for multiple counts of murder.
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Entry point 55 of 593
NPCOn hearing accounts of a lupine monster, Solomorne decided he could not let it prowl free, savaging the Imperium's subjects wherever it went. He went on a decades-long hunt to track down the death-thirsty creature. Eventually, their paths crossed on a remote world near the Heathen Stars. Ulfar killed Glaito and... found it beneath him to do the same to Solomorne. The encounter left a permanent ugly scar on Anthar's soul.
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Entry point 56 of 593
NPCThe noble Space Wolf Ulfar ultimately found the honourable death he so longed for. He died in a fight with the Rogue Trader, who had betrayed the Allfather, and his spirit soared into Kjalhalla. Whether he met his brothers, the Baleful Howl, there — only the dead know.
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Entry point 57 of 593
NPCThe Rykad System turned into a purulent wound of corruption, poisoning the Expanse. The surreal energies of the yawning warp-lesion held its planets together even in the absence of the gravitational pull of the star, defying the very laws of existence. Immense depravity took root on Rykad Minoris, and it poured out into other systems with vile glee.
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Entry point 58 of 593
NPCLeft without a sun, the Rykad System ceased to exist. Its now frigid planets spun away into the darkness, no longer held by the gravitational pull of their star. A century later, a fragment of Rykad Minoris entered the Furibundus System and was snared by void miners. A piece of its rock was delivered to Footfall with reverence and used in the restoration of the God-Emperor's statue as a final memorial to the world devoured by corruption.
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Entry point 59 of 593
NPCSadly, the world's inhabitants mostly consisted of high-born nobles, with very few serfs. Not willing to sully their hands with manual labour, the aristocrats started buying up pirate captives. Soon, New Rykad became the favoured safe haven for void outlaws.
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Entry point 60 of 593
NPCFor a short time, the world was a place of equality, as there were almost no aristocrats left to enforce any kind of hierarchy. But within a generation everything had returned to business as usual — yesterday's serfs assumed the burdens of authority with pleasure, as well as the right to mistreat those of lower rank.
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NPCIn memory of this world and all who perished on its surface or met a fate worse than death, construction began on the orbital slipways of Footfall of a glorious cathedral ship to be called Rykad's Sacrifice. The Miraculous Fusion Reactor powered its engines and cannons, fuelling them with the fierce power of the Motive Force.
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Entry point 62 of 593
NPCThe people of Rykad Minoris saved by the Rogue Trader eventually found a new home. The colony of New Rykad was founded at the edge of the von Valancius demesne.
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NPCFor the heresy contained within thassertium, its world of origin was condemned to the holy Exterminatus. When the execution fleet's orbital cannons unleashed their full power upon the planet, a blue fire filled its core, which, in its dying flash, scorched the minds of all who observed its destruction. Such was Thassera's vengeance on those who had dared decide its fate.
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Entry point 64 of 593
NPCLeaving the Necron systems behind, the Star God vengefully obliterated every Tomb World of the ancient xenos race. The old hatred of the C'tan, betrayed by their deathless servants, whispered inside him.
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Entry point 65 of 593
NPCAfter the Rogue Trader's departure, a fleet arrived on Thassera equipped with hypogene material extractors, intending to destroy the cursed mineral in its entirety. But with every block of thassertium the fleet obliterated, the planet's denizens wasted away as well. Small animals were the first to die; then, the world reeled from a series of epidemics, and soon afterward, its people lost the ability to procreate. Few made it off the doomed world, only to wither away under strange stars.
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Entry point 66 of 593
NPCAll the best minds in the service of House von Valancius took up the study of thassertium. Numerous uses were soon found for the natural psy-focus, but the jubilation was short-lived, as a series of major warp breaches in thassertium export destinations put an end to any and all goodwill toward the research. People began zealously destroying anything that remotely resembled the mineral. However, a few exceptionally strong psykers managed to bend the sinister rock to their will, magnifying their sorcerous powers severalfold and turning them into a force the Expanse has had to reckon with ever since.
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Entry point 67 of 593
NPCRumours of a natural psy-focus supplied as tithe by a backward world spread across the Koronus Expanse like a fire on the lower decks. Fuelled by the greed of trading companies, mining consortia, and freelance diggers, thassertium extraction increased, and the mineral soon flooded other systems. Thassertium's pernicious influence did not make itself known until generations later, when various places that stockpiled it became hotbeds of repulsive mutations and corrupt cults, much to the satisfaction of the Ruinous Powers quietly watching their new flocks from behind the immaculate blue of the rock.
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Entry point 68 of 593
NPCAfter months of searching, Dargonus wardens found the remains of Achilleas Scalander on the lowest levels of the hive. Drukhari artefacts and records discovered beside him indicated that the agent of the Inquisition had been compromised and was working for the xenos.
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Entry point 69 of 593
NPCGordei Skatov, an esteemed historian of architecture, travelled with the Rogue Trader for many years. His magisterial series on the art of void station construction, "Faith and Function in the Claws of the Abyss," found its rightful place on the bookshelves of every bibliophile in the Expanse.
NPCThe honour of leading the restoration of the statue of the God-Emperor was bestowed upon none other than Gordei Skatov.
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Entry point 70 of 593
NPCThe old Sslyth Malice died when enraged Wyches of the Cult of the Fatal Thirst punished everyone who had helped the Rogue Trader. The proud xenos had destroyed many of his enemies, and his death was long and painful. Though some say that he accepted this peculiar sensory experience with curiosity.
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NPCThe old Sslyth Malice did not risk returning to Commorragh, where the Cult of the Fatal Thirst was exacting vengeance on everyone who had helped the Rogue Trader. He took to piracy, forming a crew from the remnants of the Reaving Tempest. Rekindling his old thirst for battle, he seemed to shed a good hundred years off his age like a snake skin.
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Entry point 72 of 593
NPCThe savage deeds that Gordei Skatov witnessed on Footfall traumatised him forever. His architectural genius was shattered. Only the rare collections of true connoisseurs held his work, written in a shaky hand, "Footfall: the Ultimate Void Station and Mortuary."
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Entry point 73 of 593
NPCWhen the enraged Cult of the Fatal Thirst punished everyone who had helped the Rogue Trader, the traitor known as the Commissar survived against all odds. Making despicable deals and buying his own life with the lives of others, he found new benefactors. Many more subjects of the God-Emperor who had the misfortune of finding themselves in the Dark City became victims of his vile manipulations.
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NPCThe name of Iako Sotniy, also known as the Commissar, a traitor and a liar who found repentance at the end of his life and died in the name of the Emperor, was not forgotten. Drusian preachers held him up as an example, saying that even the most vile soul can be purified. The regiment of the Vickentian Zouaves honoured his deed by naming after him a penal unit of prisoners sentenced to death in battle.
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Entry point 76 of 593
NPCIako Sotniy, also known as the Commissar, did not return to the Dark City. Wandering the Expanse, he impersonated an esteemed officer, a representative of the Administratum, and a merchant of indulgences from the Ecclesiarchy. His life came to an end in the bar of the Adeptus Amasecus over a game of cards. He bluffed his way out of the worst hand imaginable, hit the jackpot, and was gunned down by his opponent.
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Entry point 77 of 593
NPCAdelia Bellardo, the granddaughter of the pirate Jerrycan Denz Bellardo, grew up to be a quick-witted and energetic captain. Since her guardian, who went simply by the name Chaplain, knew only faith, slaughter, and voidfaring, he advised her to invest her inheritance in a voidship. Her trade clipper, the Snake, travelled to all the settled worlds of the Expanse and to many uncharted ones as well. In all the time that Adelia Bellardo was captain, her ship never once fired on a civilian vessel.
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Entry point 78 of 593
NPCLord Inquisitor Xavier Calcazar helped the Rogue Trader faithfully and loyally, seeing in him/her hope for the Imperium's protection amidst all the horrors of the universe. He devoted all his energy to mounting expeditions for new C'tan Shards but never got the chance to go on any of them.
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Entry point 79 of 593
NPCThe fate of the Rogue Trader's companion, left on a nameless world in a bottomless reality-perverting pit, is unknown. Voidsmen speak of a strange shadow that appears on their decks during warp jumps. The shadow says the name "Valancius" over and over again. But there are no reasons to believe such rumours.
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Entry point 80 of 593
NPCThe voice of Vox Master Vigdis Surri Otta of the Toliman dynasty has long resounded in the Expanse, bringing hope and trumpeting the arrival of the merciful Rogue Trader. Known for her wisdom and acute understanding of ship systems, over her long life she taught many generations of future Vox Masters from the Toliman dynasty. Her body was built into the bridge itself, and in times of need, her voice flowed through the vox, dispelling delusions and despair.
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Entry point 81 of 593
NPCThanks to the Lord Captain's influence, Idira and Vigdis became close once again, mending their sundered friendship. They were often seen talking at the card table over glasses of amasec. The pale cheeks of the Vox Master would brighten with colour after such encounters — a sight as rare as a void kraken. Enjoying those precious moments, the good friends tried not to dwell on how long either of them had left.
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Entry point 82 of 593
NPCWith the influence of the Lord Captain, Idira and Vigdis tried to mend their sundered friendship. Yet, after donning the sinister xenodevice, Idira became distant again. As the days passed, it became harder and harder for her to feel anything but the desire for blind service. Vigdis avoided her, seeing how her friend was turning into a husk of her former self.
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Entry point 83 of 593
NPCAfter years of dedicated service, Master Helmsman Ravor was granted — despite his objections — the privilege of rest. The wise servants of the Omnissiah implanted an augment into his brain that restored his ability to sleep. Soon afterward, something unprecedented happened aboard the ship: the Master Helmsman overslept and missed the start of his watch. But his temper did become much more agreeable from then on.
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NPCMany years later, High Factotum Janris Danrok sought permission to retire. He said that age had softened his heart and that a more worthy, young, and assertive successor should take over his position. There was no shortage of candidates. Under all that fat, Danrok had a sentimental heart. He spared nothing for the orphans of those who had died serving the Rogue Trader. The children were given an excellent education and were eager to serve the von Valancius dynasty.
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Entry point 85 of 593
NPCThe death of House Werserian was met with silent glee by the nobility on Dargonus. Their ravenous hunger was whetted. Corruption, larceny, and the loss of control over the capital fleet led to economic collapse not only on the capital world but throughout the protectorate as well.
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Entry point 86 of 593
NPCIn announcing the Discontinuing of the Cycle, the Amarnat Collective instilled terror in the hearts of those who revered the theorems of purity, but it gave hope to others. After gathering its disciples and recruiting servo-soldiers from vassal planets, it ventured to the worlds of the Screaming Vortex and to the infernal forges of the Dark Mechanicus. This March of Reindoctrination was meant to seize the stolen secrets of the Omnissiah from the hands of the heretics, temper the cult in the fire of battle, and transform it into a tool for both Eradication and Comprehension. The fleet disappeared in the darkness, and only rare echoes of its Astropathic messages were ever intercepted.
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Entry point 87 of 593
NPCHaving revealed himself as the renewed Messiah of Discontinuing, Pasqal Haneumann caused great turmoil. Free from his vows of service, he did not burden himself with leadership over the fleet. He took just one combat squadron and retreated with his flock to remote sectors for contemplation. Decades later, his ships were spotted among the heretics of the Cauldron, a sector touched by corruption. Their tech-crews revered the Omnissiah, but His image was haunting. No one had dared depict the Deus Mechanicus in this manner before, adorned with sinister flesh-embedded lumens and golden mech armour, and crowned with clawed wings. The Omnissiah chose a grim and belligerent likeness in which to appear before His unrighteous Messiah.
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NPCComing before the conclave of the Cognisance Fleet, Pasqal Haneumann repented of the schism. Casting off his former heresy-stained identifier, he accepted a designation unregistered by the catalogue and surrendered his Magos regalia. His fate remains unknown, but the archives contain reports on the activities of a stern castigator of the Code falsely identified as the Tech-Priest Brasswhisper, who was already deceased by that time. The face of this castigator was hidden behind a mask; his mission was interrogation and elimination. This agent of the conclave witnessed every sign of tech-heresy and exterminated all who endangered the theorems of purity granted by the forerunners.
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Entry point 89 of 593
NPCTortured by the mysteries of his origins, betrayal, and the legacy of Archmagos Amarnat, Pasqal could not find peace. After several years, he was found dead in the ship's tech-chapel, strangled by his own mechadendrites. Whether scrap-code was deliberately planted in his mind, or he simply went mad, no one knows.
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Entry point 90 of 593
NPCThe unit Abel Haneumann continued his service to the Amarnat Collective. In unity with five companion minds, he rediscovered the joy of direct cognitive communication, unmarred by inborn otherness. While outwardly silent, he joyfully described the images, concepts, and ideas that the Omnissiah revealed to him. Fulfilling his function, he overflowed with the exultation of efficiency.
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Entry point 91 of 593
NPCAfter joining the Stormbiters, Ulfar Thunderlung soon became the pack leader, taking the place of Thorbald, who met an honourable end. The new leader sent a message to Fenris stating his intention to remain in the Expanse — there were too many enemies yet lurking in these hunting grounds that deserved the Allfather's wrath. Legends paved the formidable pack's path in gold. Years later, Ulfar found a battle in which he could meet his honourable death, but the warp was suddenly torn asunder, and ships from Fenris bearing the mark of the wolf head came to his aid. Saved from the battlefield by his loyal companion Halbrandt, Ulfar accepted the honours of the dreadnought and was entombed in sacred armour. During the blessed ritual he cursed and demanded to be left to his death, but his brothers merely answered with mirthful laughter. When he recovered his senses, Ulfar led his forces to the Heathen Stars — the Allfather had given him a new mission in a near-death vision. No one in the Expanse has heard word of the Space Wolves since their departure, yet many believe that one day they will return victorious.
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Entry point 92 of 593
NPCAfter burying his brothers, Ulfar felt the weight of exhaustion and loss on his shoulders. His loyalty to the Allfather was strong, but his heart had suffered much over his decades of battles. Unable to break his vows, he continued to sing the saga of his pack alone, the last of the Baleful Howl. Hundreds of legends on myriad worlds are told of the Lone Wolf. Covering his armour with a grey cloak, he would appear and vanish again, leaving only the corpses of the unrighteous behind. Stories were crafted about the mysterious avenger, and hundreds of young heroes, Wolflings, began to follow him. Ulfar did not call on them. He did not remember their names and did not mourn them. He longed only for an honourable death, but could not find it. He always survived.
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Entry point 93 of 593
NPCAfter burying his brothers, Ulfar Everlost looked inward upon his heart and found it broken and bleeding. Loyalty to the Allfather, the pride of a Wolf, brotherly love, and the thrill of battle — he laid it all upon the pyre, until hollow anger was all that remained in his soul. From that moment on, his path is lost in darkness. But there is an eerie legend in the Expanse that speaks of a monstrous titan rejected by death — a deliverer of curses that come to be. Numbed by sorrow, he slays both the pious and the corrupt, though more often the corrupt, as he has chosen to dwell upon the worlds of the Heathen Stars, where devotion to the Emperor is rare indeed.
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Entry point 94 of 593
NPCThe story of Ulfar Thunderlung ended on a frozen planet among the Necron Tomb Worlds. No one was ever able to find him or his Baleful Howl pack. Those who attempted to seldom returned with stories of their travels. Whatever lived on that frigid planet was horrifying and deadly.
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Entry point 95 of 593
NPCThorbald Ironhide led the Stormbiters for decades more, exterminating evil in the Expanse and adding glorious verses to the saga of his pack. When he fell, his successor, Halbrandt, decided it was time for the Wolves to return home, and so he led the pack into the Maw. Whether they were successful in returning to Fenris is unknown.
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Entry point 96 of 593
NPCThe schism of Discontinuing the Cycle was over. The repentance of Pasqal Haneumann put a stop to the discussion about whether to update the algorithms and procedures of worship. The secret of Eschatos was declared heresy against the Deus Mechanicus and forgotten. The Cognisance Fleet was reunited and ready to meet the decay and degradation of Knowledge prophesied by Archmagos Amarnat.
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Entry point 97 of 593
NPCThe scars that Hieronymus received in the repentance allotted to him by Incendia Chorda seemed to strengthen his stubborn character. Having been punished for his transgressions, he could condemn those around him with a lighter heart. He spoke less and less of mercy and more and more of wrath.
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Entry point 98 of 593
NPCYears after its first unsuccessful attempt, the Cult of Saint Drusus finally colonised Jesevon. The teachings born there became more widespread, even in the wake of rumours that the sermons of the Emperor-Progenitor were dangerously unorthodox. Adepts of Jesevonism insisted on their purity, noting their accordance with the writings of Reverend Hieronymus Doloroso.
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Entry point 99 of 593
NPCThanks to the patronage of the von Valancius dynasty, the Cult of Saint Drusus was successful in spreading its influence across the Expanse. Overshadowed, the cults of other saints lost their followers and faced a harsh choice: slip into obscurity or swear allegiance to the ideals of Drusus the Warrior.
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Entry point 100 of 593
NPCTheir calls to rally against the evil breeding in the von Valancius protectorate were answered by thousands of the righteous, but noble authorities were deaf to their sermons.
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Entry point 101 of 593
NPCIn the following years, the Cognisance Fleet slowly and deliberately left the explored systems of the Expanse for the furthest remote regions. Observation stations and claimed worlds were abandoned, and even Eufrates II became derelict. Statistical divination warned the fleet's conclave of the grim events awaiting the Expanse, and they decided to deliver their fellows from the coming storm. Yet, they did not share the truth with the laypeople.
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Entry point 102 of 593
NPCProfitable deals made between the Fellowship of the Void and the von Valancius dynasty helped them subdue smaller brigand squadrons in the sector. Many worlds and stations saw the opening of "Fellowship Dens," in which grotesquely sincere pirate representatives took kickbacks from traders in exchange for safe passage.
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Entry point 103 of 593
NPCViolence throughout the Expanse put many on their guard, and as a result, the Kasballica Mission's business declined. Soon, rumours surfaced among the Cold Traders about a so-called "Commission" that had made it through the Maw and into the Expanse. Its professed purpose was to audit assets and "take measures to restructure operations." These words carried with them an ominous threat.
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Entry point 104 of 593
NPCAfter the Rogue Trader's visit, dimensional rifts opened around the Spire of the Reaving Tempest, flooding the streets of Commorragh with daemons. This incursion terrified Commorragh. The Kabal of the Black Heart managed to stop it, but some Archons saw the event as a sign of their leader's weakness. Others interpreted it as a grim omen for the entirety of the Dark City.
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Entry point 105 of 593
NPCPerhaps they were right. Not all the abominations from the Immaterium that broke into the Spire of the Reaving Tempest were hunted down. Entities that served the Edge of Daybreak hid in the darkest corners, making plans for the further destruction of the Dark City and waiting for the perfect moment to strike. They knew the opportunity would present itself very soon.
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Entry point 106 of 593
NPCThe fall of the Kabal of the Reaving Tempest united Commorragh for a brief and bloody moment. The elites of the Dark City set their squabbles aside and found a new game in tearing apart the domain of Archon Yremeryss. The fate of the Reaving Tempest reminded the other Kabals that nothing lasts forever in the Dark City, save the city itself.
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Entry point 107 of 593
NPCThe bloodbath unleashed by the Commissar's squad in the Arena of the Fatal Thirst was like a sudden flash — short, yet powerful enough to be seen. News of the audacious stunt spread throughout the Dark City. To stifle the threat of riots, the Archons executed innumerable prisoners who had been rotting away for years in the spires' dungeons. They then ventured to the human worlds in search of new servants.
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Entry point 108 of 593
NPCLeft without a mission or a leader, the Word Bearers retreated to the depths of the Immaterium. Their last act of vengeance was a bloody assault on Footfall. The populace of several asteroids was exterminated or enslaved, and the statue of the God-Emperor was badly damaged.
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Entry point 109 of 593
NPCThe Cult of the Final Dawn gladly submitted to their new leader from the von Valancius dynasty. They saw in him/her the promised harbinger of the final daybreak, whose light would change the Expanse forever.
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Entry point 110 of 593
NPCWith the fall of their unholy patron, the Edge of Daybreak, the Cult of the Final Dawn perished as well. Every cell of the cult was hunted down and eliminated. Rumours that some worshippers of the Ruinous Powers had managed to get away, hiding the writings of their warp-banished lord under their robes, were baseless.
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Entry point 111 of 593
NPCThe journey of the Messiah of Discontinuing ended on the Ark Mechanicus Hermetico. With him, the atrocious schism birthed by the Amarnat Collective ended as well.
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Entry point 112 of 593
NPCMagos Dominus Opticon-22, one of the first to hail the return of the Messiah, took the helm of the mother squadron of the Cognisance Fleet. Unquestioningly embracing the teaching of Discontinuing the Cycle, he personally saw to the crushing of any renegades who did not accept the Messiah's word as truth, and earned himself the identifier "Chrome Scourge."
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Entry point 113 of 593
NPCHieronymus Doloroso met his end at the base of Rogue Trader von Valancius's throne. [Name] ripped the preacher's face from his skull and displayed his skinned head on the ship's bridge.
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Entry point 114 of 593
NPCThe changes that the von Valancius dynasty brought to Footfall endured on the station long after.
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Entry point 115 of 593
NPCJae Heydari, curled up in a dark corner, was forced to witness the Rogue Trader's betrayal. When the traitor of Humanity left Epitaph, Jae was left on the tortured planetoid alone. Alas, this only delayed her doom, as even the most cunning smuggler in the entire Expanse could not leave the ancient xenos worlds without a ship. Not willing to suffer thirst and hunger, she ended her journey with a bullet to the head.
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Entry point 116 of 593
NPCAware of their power, many Ministorum hierarchs in the Expanse saw themselves not as servants of the God-Emperor but as rulers in His place, entitled to reverence and luxury. This may be the reason why the Cult of Saint Drusus did not call the faithful to a single purifying crusade against the von Valancius protectorate.
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Entry point 117 of 593
NPCIt was on Epitaph that Yrliet Lanaevyss completed her Path of the Outcast. Valiantly turning her weapon against the mon-keigh who had proven the ill repute of his/her inferior race was warranted, she died with honour, as befits a warrior of her noble kind.
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Entry point 118 of 593
NPCIn memory of their old boss, many pirates started mentioning R'yzza, a herald of easy money, in mock prayers. Over time, what had at first seemed like a bad joke, tasteless even for a bunch of thugs, spawned a small but growing cult of void raiders living off the merciless plundering of trade routes.
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Entry point 119 of 593
NPCGordei Skatov, an unquestionable expert on architecture, was never able to kindle the spark of his genius into the flames of talent. Consumed by wild speculations about the secrets of Footfall Station, he became addicted to amasec and turned into a pitiful and loathsome drunkard. He died during the launch of Dargonus's newly renovated sewage system due to his own design errors.
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Entry point 120 of 593
NPCJanus was among the worlds hit by the savage retribution of the xenos.
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Entry point 121 of 593
NPCVladaym Tocara's path comes to an end in the ranks of the penal boarding team on Incendia Chorda's ship. People say he died putting down a planetary rebellion, turning his weapon on his comrades.
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Entry point 122 of 593
NPCThe time of iniquity declared by the Rogue Trader turned Footfall into a nest of depravity. Peaceful traders could hardly find a place to dock among the pirate ships, and merchants no longer even bothered to wipe the blood from their ill-gotten goods. The Imperial Navy tried to free Footfall from this bane three times, each time retreating with heavy losses.
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Entry point 123 of 593
NPCAfter the death of his master or mistress, he persuaded a group of associates to capture a trading vessel, using it for piracy and larceny, in which he found great success.
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Entry point 124 of 593
NPCThe Vackemo was found guilty of armed mutiny. He and three of his accomplices were brought to Footfall and executed by being thrown out of an airlock so that the bodies would remain in the station's orbit for all to see.
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Entry point 125 of 593
NPCShe disappeared and reappeared again in the Expanse many years later as the leader of a fleet of Aeldari Corsairs, fearsome in battle and well-versed in the tactics of the Imperium.
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Entry point 126 of 593
NPCRumours of the rotting remains of an Aeldari craftworld spread around the Expanse. Explorators, privateers, Kasballica agents, and anyone hungry for easy money all rushed to frontier systems to vie for a piece of the prize. Some were swallowed by the warp, while others perished in skirmishes with their rivals. The most skilled and fortunate returned empty-handed after decades of searching. The colossal ship, as big as an Imperial world, simply vanished, as if it had never existed. But the legend of the forbidden treasure lived on and continued to bring daring souls to ruin.
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Entry point 127 of 593
NPCHaving completed his last journey with his Lord Captain, Abelard Werserian, with the gracious permission of the Rogue Trader, left his post as Seneschal and took over the helm of his large family.
NPCHouse Werserian rose above its rivals and was never again the target of persecution — even after their esteemed patriarch died decades later in his bed surrounded by his grieving loved ones.
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Entry point 128 of 593
NPCThere were rumours of a frightening new fighter in the arenas of Commorragh — a crippled, insane Wrack that fervently hacked his opponents to pieces. Bathing in rivers of blood, ecstatic with rage, he echoed the cries of the delighted spectators, shouting, "A-CHI-LAS! A-CHI-LAS!"
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Entry point 129 of 593
NPCMarazhai confirmed the guilt of the deceased Inquisition agent and described in detail the torture he inflicted upon the poor soul to gain his obedience and loyalty. He also confirmed that Yrliet had found and killed his mon-keigh toy. Yet few chose to believe the words of the cursed xenos, and thus the secret of the death of Achilleas Scalander was never publicly known.
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Entry point 130 of 593
NPCThe monster that returned with the Rogue Trader from Commorragh bore little resemblance to Achilleas Scalander. In rare moments of clarity, the former Inquisition agent howled like a wounded beast, pleading for death. In moments of frenzy, he violently disposed of anyone who disobeyed his master/mistress. As time passed, the body and mind of this monster, deprived of the Haemonculus's injections, began to disintegrate, bringing him unending suffering. In a burst of madness, Achilleas leapt from a high spire on Dargonus, and his crippled soul found peace.
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Entry point 131 of 593
NPCSacrificing his health in diligent service to the Rogue Trader and letting his waistline expand even more, High Factotum Janris Danrok watched over the dynasty's riches for years. The day his body was found sprawled over paperwork in his office, his assistant came forward with two reports: "The most esteemed Janris Danrok has passed away of natural causes due to complications of a weakened heart," and "As regards your assets, everything is in order."
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Entry point 132 of 593
NPCIdira Tlass, whose uncontrolled powers of witchcraft were subdued by a xenodevice, became an obedient instrument in the service of the von Valancius dynasty. The once lively and garrulous woman became more a shadow of her former self with each passing year. Her fate was lost in the darkness among the stars, and chroniclers know nothing of it.
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Entry point 133 of 593
NPCAs the years passed, High Factotum Janris Danrok became so corpulent that he was unable to leave his chambers, preferring to administer affairs through messengers. His monumental body could not squeeze onto the common decks, which was for the better. The High Factotum's tastes, both refined and hideous, represented a flagrant example of moral depravity, and proved too odious for even the Rogue Trader's crew to witness.
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Entry point 134 of 593
NPCThe voice of Vox Master Vigdis Surri Otta of the Toliman dynasty was long heard in the Koronus Expanse, trumpeting the arrival of the Rogue Trader. It brought glad tidings to the faithful and instilled horror in heretics awaiting righteous retribution. After her death, Vigdis was granted the honour of being immortalised in a herald servo-skull. For many centuries to come, her voice praised the von Valancius dynasty, transmitting orders across decks.
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Entry point 135 of 593
NPCThe voice of Vox Master Vigdis Surri Otta of the Toliman dynasty was long heard in the Koronus Expanse. Its echo embedded itself in the vox-frequencies of the worlds the Rogue Trader visited, driving those who had the misfortune of hearing it mad. Through deranged laughter and wretched weeping, the message could be heard: "Valancius comes."
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Entry point 136 of 593
NPCMacharius Sauerback was loyal to the Rogue Trader to the last, despite all the rumours to the contrary. Finding little affection among his subjects or family, he stayed true to himself, remaining a forthright, severe, and pious person. Macharius strived to ensure that every soul in his charge felt justifiable dread before both him and the God-Emperor.
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Entry point 137 of 593
NPCHalf a century later, the Expanse trembled to the echo of Aeldari war songs. Myriad warbands appeared out of nowhere, leaving a trail of bodies in their wake before disappearing into Webway Gates, masterfully hidden from the eyes of mon-keigh. The Children of Asuryan had come to avenge the death of the craftworld Crudarach. Their woeful retribution lasted many decades until both races were warworn and out of blood to spill.
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Entry point 138 of 593
NPCAeldari from the fallen craftworld Crudarach, who once travelled through the darkness of the Expanse in a desperate attempt to gather the remains of their kind, were becoming a rarer sight. Even the most skilful Kasballica agents and audacious bounty hunters, with knowledge of xenos settlements on the edges of the Expanse, could no longer find their trail. Squads of Aeldari rangers suddenly appeared on different worlds and disappeared abruptly without shedding a drop of blood. Their purpose remained an enigma.
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Entry point 139 of 593
NPCThe news of xenos appearing in the Expanse was followed by a report from the agri-world Janus about a strange flash in the night sky. When the light disappeared, authorities sent out patrols that located a xenos camp among ancient ruins. Their trail ended near a white monument — a Webway Gate. Where this path led the Aeldari, only their Farseers know.
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Entry point 140 of 593
NPCOver the years, the elder Sauerback even grew close to the Rogue Trader — at least, as far as such a cold and ill-disposed person could. After he proved himself a dutiful and merciless warrior, he became the warden of Dargonus and vigilantly guarded the Lord Captain's life and peace.
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Entry point 141 of 593
NPCThe Spirit Monolith, purified by the Harlequin Troupe on the Crone World, was hidden from the insatiable eyes of mon-keigh by raging warp storms. Ships started going missing more frequently in the systems close to the planet. Even the most courageous captains gave the region a wide berth, and it was named the Damned Reefs.
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Entry point 142 of 593
NPCIdira Tlass lived several more years after the Rogue Trader's grand campaign on Epitaph. Despite her short life, she left behind many legends and tales of her adventures in the Lord Captain's service, and of the terrible warp phenomena that she manifested.
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Entry point 143 of 593
NPCA mysterious entity, referred to by some as the King of Distortion, granted immense power to its herald in this conflict. Sometimes the Rogue Trader was stuck with incredible luck that was accompanied by strange discrepancies in the memories of its witnesses — while some remembered events as they actually transpired, others recalled different circumstances, much less favourable to the Lord Captain. But the Expanse is filled with fools and madmen, is it not?
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Entry point 144 of 593
NPCFor many years, the Rogue Trader won many victories and undertook daring expeditions. Time and fatigue bore no power over him/her. However, with time, dark rumours began to emerge about His/Her Lord/Ladyship. People said that the Rogue Trader had acquired a vengeful taste for the flesh of those who had tried to make a pawn of him/her.
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Entry point 145 of 593
NPCOver the years, many in the Rogue Trader's retinue noticed strange changes in his/her behaviour. With no apparent need for sleep or food, the Rogue Trader delivered justice while retaining his/her youth and physical strength. Some said that the only dish he/she would eat was the marrow of convicted criminals — a delicacy introduced to His/Her Lordship/Ladyship by Incendia Chorda.
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Entry point 146 of 593
NPCSparing just a few hours a day for sleep and food, the Rogue Trader worked for the benefit of the downtrodden, not affected by exhaustion or the burden of his/her years. Yet, with time, strange rumours began to spread. It was said that not everyone who entered the gates of his/her palace on Dargonus would leave again. Envious slander claimed that [Name] had acquired a "taste for innocence" in his/her later years, and that he/she enjoyed consuming the flesh of defenceless victims.
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Entry point 147 of 593
NPCXenos Marazhai Aezyrraesh, once a member of the Rogue Traders' retinue, disappeared without a trace soon after his fateful journey into the depths of the Expanse.
NPCPeople say the hideous xenos faced a reckoning for his savagery at the hands of the crew, who allegedly tore the enemy of Humanity apart at the cost of dozens of lives of those brave enough to attack the wretched creature.
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Entry point 148 of 593
NPCMarazhai Aezyrraesh, who added the title of Voidfarer to his name, returned to Commorragh, to the Kabal of the Reaving Tempest, which had survived persecution against all odds and awaited the coming of its rightful master. The new Archon, despite rumours connecting him to the death of a leader of the Kabal of the Black Heart, gained Vect's favour and the respect of the Dark City. Destroying and absorbing several smaller Kabals, the Reaving Tempest once again rose to the zenith of its sinister glory.
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Entry point 149 of 593
NPCProfane orders issued by the Rogue Trader in defiance of the commandments of the God-Emperor pushed Macharius Sauerback to betray his master/mistress. But the traitor in the making was turned over to the Rogue Trader by the son of a zealous aristocrat. No longer held back by his father's authority, Hetka Sauerback, as the new head of his house, was quick to indulge in new opportunities previously beyond his reach.
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Entry point 150 of 593
NPCAfter losing his family, Abelard Werserian continued his service under the Rogue Trader. The embittered Seneschal established tyrannical rule on his decks. Several years later, he died at the hands of crewmen revolting against his draconian decrees and punishments.
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Entry point 151 of 593
NPCAbelard's shining memory was blighted only by rumours of a creeping madness in the twilight of his life. Many said they had seen the esteemed Seneschal talking to someone unseen, in a voice filled with unusual tenderness and sorrow.
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Entry point 152 of 593
NPCHeinrix van Calox, the former Interrogator of the Ordo Xenos, renounced the Holy Inquisition in the name of the one who had forever conquered his heart. A heretic and a traitor, Heinrix became his beloved's Master of Whispers, so that he could guard her life and her rest, and never leave her side again.
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Entry point 153 of 593
NPCSister Argenta made no secret of the great respect and gratitude she felt toward the Lord Captain. Yet duty compelled her to leave von Valancius's retinue. With the blessing of the Ecclesiarchy, she founded a minor Order of the Adepta Sororitas: the Order of the One Star. United around the keeper of the sacred relic, its Sisters protected the faithful from the dangers still lurking in the Expanse. The wider Order and its courageous founder very quickly became heroes of legend, instilling hope and inspiration in the hearts of Terra's faithful children.
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Entry point 154 of 593
NPCHeinrix van Calox, the former Interrogator of the Ordo Xenos, took the mantle of the Lord Inquisitor after his mentor's death. Receiving both the Inquisitor's rosette and the duty of defending the sector from the enemies of Humanity, van Calox became the new Warden of the Koronus Expanse.
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Entry point 155 of 593
NPCThe Inquisitor became known as one who showed lenience toward small vices and who was prone to using questionable methods. Decades later, van Calox's own students branded him a dangerous radical, someone ready to use the instruments of Chaos to achieve his ends. Before they could hand their mentor over to the tribunal, the Inquisitor disappeared without a trace among the distant stars at the edge of the Expanse.
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Entry point 156 of 593
NPCVan Calox declared a relentless war against the enemies of Humanity, be they xenos, servants of Chaos, or heretics in the Imperium's own ranks. The Inquisitor fearlessly eliminated numerous nests of corruption in the Expanse.
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Entry point 157 of 593
NPCA few decades later, he was assassinated by a criminal cartel. Some say the Kasballica Mission, sick of the unrelenting servant of the law, was involved in the Inquisitor's killing.
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Entry point 158 of 593
NPCA few decades later, there was an attempt on his life by a criminal cartel. Some say he survived only thanks to an old acquaintance from within the Kasballica Mission, who warned the Inquisitor of the coming attack.
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Entry point 159 of 593
NPCThe Inquisitor poured all his energy into the creation of a secret police, which he used to clandestinely control the most influential figures in the Expanse. He struck fear in every governor and liege in the region. As time passed, Heinrix's methods became more extreme. Descending into radicalism, he employed the tools of xenos and even Chaos to spy on people and manipulate them. A joint uprising by the Imperial Navy and Footfall put an end to his tyranny, and yet, cast down and cornered, the heretic brought forbidden powers to bear against his enemies, taking hundreds of innocents with him to the grave.
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Entry point 160 of 593
NPCAfter laying his hands on the instruments of mass destruction, the Inquisitor announced a crusade against the many heresies of the Expanse. With no regard for the lives lost and no mercy for the smallest of offences, he purged the region with fire and sword, uniting thousands of fanatics under his banner. When Inquisitor van Calox's time came to an end, he left behind a massive retinue of acolytes. One of them assumed his mentor's mantle when the Inquisitor fell fighting unknown xenos in the galactic south of the Expanse.
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Entry point 161 of 593
NPCIt was no secret to those who held power in the Expanse that Inquisitor van Calox and Rogue Trader von Valancius had shared a close and fruitful bond. But very few knew that the nature of their relationship was more complicated and intimate than a simple political alliance. The two lovers, burdened by numerous responsibilities, very rarely had the chance to meet among the stars of the Expanse. Yet, they kept up these assignations until the end of their lives.
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Entry point 162 of 593
NPCCassia Orsellio learned from every bitter lesson she was given throughout her travels with the Rogue Trader. She became the Novator of her House in spite of her own fear, her hatred of her kin, and her regent's manipulations. But most of all, she did it in defiance of the Rogue Trader, whom she despised until the end of her life. Like her predecessor, Cassia ruled House Orsellio with an iron fist — through force and fear.
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Entry point 163 of 593
NPCThe Expanse was falling ever further into darkness, surrendering to the power of the enemies of Humanity. But even in the deepest shadow, a spark can be found. A white-haired maiden carrying a silver star and with a charred shard of an Aquila at her waist began to enter the dreams of the faithful across the sector. She inspired the bold to rise up against the forces of the Archenemy. And for the frail, the sick, and those tormented in captivity, she offered solace and words of strength to embolden them in the face of suffering.
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Entry point 164 of 593
NPCThe circumstances of his death are shrouded in mystery, but the fact that his body is buried in the von Valancius family tomb speaks volumes. This great honour was reserved for only the Rogue Trader's most loyal servants who had saved their master's life by giving their own.
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Entry point 165 of 593
NPCAlthough the Cognisance Fleet turned its back on the von Valancius dynasty, when the rumours of the heresy that engulfed it became too much to ignore, entire squadrons of apostates who had disregarded the algorithms of sanctity sought the Rogue Trader's protection. Some were old followers of the schism of Discontinuing, open to any change, while others were simply loathsome heretics eager to expose their rotten cores.
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Entry point 166 of 593
NPCHeinrix van Calox, Interrogator of the Ordo Xenos, gave his life fighting the enemy of Humanity — Rogue Trader von Valancius, who betrayed the Imperium and bowed down before forces hostile to Mankind.
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Entry point 167 of 593
NPCAbelard Werserian remained the Lord Captain's Seneschal and right hand until his dying breath. House Werserian, cleared of accusations of mutiny, dedicated itself to Dargonus's fleet. When, years later, Abelard left this world, the worthiest successor of his family received the honour of inheriting the high office of Seneschal.
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Entry point 168 of 593
NPCIdira Tlass, the psyker of the von Valancius dynasty, disappeared without a trace when her fate was entrusted to the agents of the Holy Inquisition.
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NPCGathering its bleeding worlds together again, the Rogue Trader dared to build something more noble and civilised in the Expanse — a haven for those drifting and unprotected in the strict hierarchy of the Imperium. It would be an unbound frontier, where freedom and compassion were not wholly extinct.
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NPCGathering its bleeding worlds together again, the Rogue Trader restored order in the Expanse without compromise, protecting the faith and leaving behind any notion that the region could ever be beyond His righteous justice. An expansion began that would slowly turn the sector into a new province of the Imperium, where Rogue Traders were no longer needed.
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Entry point 171 of 593
NPCRegina Sauerback's sugar-tongued loyalty to the Rogue Trader prompted many crude rumours. The gossip stopped one day when the Sauerbacks' cold bodies were found in their bedroom. It is widely believed that they fell victim to the machinations of distant relatives. Yet vicious whispers persist that, at some point between being stabbed by the poisoned blade and succumbing to his wounds, Macharius himself wrung his dear wife's slender neck.
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Entry point 172 of 593
NPCToriana Gaprak missed the moment when her family, which had previously functioned like a well-oiled machine, started to fall apart, racked by infighting. Among her distant relatives, many blamed Toriana for the Kiava Gamma disaster. Soon, the Gaprak family splintered into warring factions and spent centuries locked in a violent struggle only occasionally punctuated by futile attempts to reunite the house.
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NPCThe era of Calligos's cruelty and wrath came to an end. Only then did the many terrified witnesses to his vile crimes step forward to recount them. Memories of the good, prosperous years for the protectorate under the wise rule of Calligos Winterscale were eclipsed by the legacy of his innumerable and bloody crimes.
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Entry point 174 of 593
NPCBranches of Houses Gaprak and Werserian became intertwined for a time after the marriage of Astartia and Vicent. To the great sadness of the couple and the great amusement of the spiteful Dargonus nobility, their marriage produced no children. Just like her ancestors, Astartia Werserian-Gaprak dedicated her life to service. Crushed by the events that shook the stability of his house and his inability to provide an heir, Vicent lived in his wife's shadow. When his time came, he passed away without notice.
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Entry point 175 of 593
NPCMembers of House Werserian served the dynasty faithfully and loyally, amassing more and more power. A century later, they had finally gained the respect enjoyed by other noble houses. Yet, power and luxury can dull any blade — the now pampered and idle aristocrats were scarcely recognisable as the descendants of the formidable Seneschal Werserian.
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NPCThe ideals that [Name] von Valancius was committed to were alien to the Imperium but close to the hearts of many in the Expanse. Anyone who could not resolve a dispute or who was denied justice rushed to the palace of the Rogue Trader in search of mercy.
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Entry point 177 of 593
NPCThe Koronus Expanse became the hunting grounds of the new wicked sovereign of the von Valancius dynasty. From the ruins of the old order, a new kingdom was born — one that worshipped the Dark Gods of the warp. The formation of a new gargantuan punitive squadron began in the Calixis Sector. However, no one knew if it would make it through the furious warp storms of the Great Rift.
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Entry point 178 of 593
NPCSquads of Aeldari rangers slaughtered millions of humans in a matter of weeks before retreating with their kin whom the Rogue Trader had once graciously invited to live on his/her world.
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Entry point 179 of 593
NPCOthers who were better informed kept quiet about the xeno-artefact the Rogue Trader had acquired and thereafter kept constantly on his/her person. As the years passed, it quite literally became a part of His/Her Lordship/Ladyship. The skin that grew over the artefact hid the vermillion glyphs inscribed on the strange accessory's surface.
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Entry point 180 of 593
NPCOthers who were better informed kept quiet about the xeno-artefact the Rogue Trader had acquired and thereafter kept constantly on his/her person. As the years passed, it quite literally became a part of His/Her Lordship/Ladyship. The skin that grew over the artefact hid the vermillion glyphs inscribed on the strange accessory's surface.
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Entry point 181 of 593
NPCOthers who were better informed kept quiet about the xeno-artefact the Rogue Trader had acquired and thereafter kept constantly on his/her person. As the years passed, it quite literally became a part of His/Her Lordship/Ladyship. The skin that grew over the artefact hid the vermillion glyphs inscribed on the strange accessory's surface.
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Entry point 182 of 593
NPCSquads of Aeldari rangers broke through the Webway Gate and found themselves at the heart of a demented world, filled to the brim with mutants and daemon spawn. A fierce but brief battle ensured, and She Who Thirsts devoured the souls of the fallen Aeldari with glee.
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Entry point 183 of 593
NPCFor a long time, the Expanse was filled with rumours of the brutality with which Navigator House Orsellio severed its branches and suppressed its inner strife. When the dust had settled, the young Lady Navigator Tisiphone II Orsellio assumed the post of Novator and ruled with an iron fist. Many years passed before the Orsellio name once again resounded through the Expanse, when Tisiphone II and her crazed followers started a secret war against another Navigator House. Its vicious battles took place in the warp, hidden from any witnesses in realspace.
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Entry point 184 of 593
NPCAfter her travels with the Rogue Trader, Cassia Orsellio returned to the bosom of her house, where her circle and the Great Regent declared her the new Novator. Accustomed to relying on the Lord Captain for everything, Cassia became an obedient servant of the von Valancius dynasty, making every effort to help her friend and mentor. Even when doing so harmed the interests of House Orsellio.
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NPCThe noble Space Wolf Ulfar could not protect the Rogue Trader from the dark temptation of worshipping an ancient Star God. The dark Doppelgrendel's prophecy was half-fulfilled: though Ulfar met his end in obscurity, his death at the hands of the ancient monster was truly honourable and glorious.
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Entry point 186 of 593
NPCAbel Haneumann did not long outlive his tech-comrade. He withered away in his cell, passing seemingly without cause, simply willing his vital functions to cease.
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Entry point 187 of 593
NPCFor reasons unknown, members of the Werserian family found themselves time and time again as targets of assassinations, victims of unpredictable riots, and the focus of palace intrigue. The misfortune that plagued their house suddenly stopped when Regina Sauerback met her end.
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Entry point 188 of 593
NPCThe fate of Pasqal Haneumann, who accompanied the Rogue Trader in his/her campaign on Epitaph, is shrouded in mystery. He was pronounced dead and his identifier was added to a memorial code-prayer. Yet, there were rumours of a mysterious prisoner on the station Altar-Templum-Calixis-Ext-17. Some say he had once been a Tech-Priest but was crippled spiritually and physically after witnessing unspeakable events. An Explorator expedition had found him on the brink of death. The knowledge stored in his neural augmetic was too valuable to simply dispose of but too dangerous for him to be granted freedom. And thus, the mysterious "Prisoner of Furibundus" became the subject of tall tales for decades.
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NPCEven after the Seneschal's death, conflicting rumours about his life continued to haunt people's imaginations. According to unnamed witnesses, upon arriving on Dargonus, Abelard immediately assembled his family for a celebratory dinner. The wine at that feast was as poisoned as his own mind. The honourable Seneschal would never have to leave the festive hall again, destined instead to look over his beloved family forever. Thenceforth, nobody would ever take them from him. "No one can hurt you now," he muttered, repeating the words like a twisted mantra as he caressed his ulcer-ridden lips with swollen hands, the dead faintly echoing him.
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Entry point 191 of 593
NPCClementia Werserian, granddaughter of Abelard and chancellor of Dargonus, executed her duties irreproachably and even found time to school the younger generations of her family. She was an equally skilled mentor, chancellor, and political operative. After a century of immaculate service, she surprised everyone by leaving her position and becoming the first mate on a trade ship. She would later admit, like a true Werserian, that she had always had a passion for ships and voidfaring.
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NPCStanding before the one whom she had once called her Lord Captain, Idira Tlass spent the last moments of her life pleading to go with him/her. She was ready to pledge her allegiance to the Star God, to abandon Humanity... But her master/mistress had no use for her anymore. The C'tan Shard, feeling antipathy toward any mark of the Immaterium's power, undid her with exceptional thoroughness.
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Entry point 193 of 593
NPCAfter openly embracing the patronage of the Skull God, Calligos Winterscale swept over the Expanse like a fiery tornado, bombing peaceful planets and destroying voidships. His dynasty's realm became a nest of piracy and heresy that required immediate purging.
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NPCIdira's tragic demise came as a heavy blow to Vigdis. For many years she refused to discuss her death or their friendship. Yet many years later, when it was time for Vigdis to retire, her granddaughter Idira Surri Otta of the Toliman dynasty took her place.
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Entry point 195 of 593
NPCThe words uttered by Vladaym Tocara during his torturous execution were not forgotten. The lower levels of Footfall became flooded with lunatics muttering scraps of the murdered Liege's final words. One Terran year after his execution, there was a great massacre — the deranged lunatics suddenly fell silent all at once, took out knives, and swept through the station like a crimson storm, killing many. They were exterminated to the last, and Footfall never saw a disaster of the like again. Yet, Vladaym's last words still echoed in the slums of many a planet in the Expanse.
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Entry point 196 of 593
NPCIdira Tlass pledged her loyalty to the Ruinous Powers to save her damned soul and allowed herself to merge with the voices that had been directing her for so long. For centuries, the many-faced monstrosity she eventually turned into guided the Rogue Trader on the path of corruption with wicked prophecies spoken by its innumerable mouths. Only [Name] von Valancius him/herself could decipher a single truthful message from the thousands of profane utterances in the maddening cacophony of voices.
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Entry point 197 of 593
NPCAfter taking the Mercatum Tabula Officiale from the still warm body of Jae Heydari, the privateer Falco deftly replaced the Imperium's only official trade representative in the Expanse.
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NPCYet amidst the lawlessness that came to rule the Expanse, that title became a target on the privateer's back. His skull and heart were offered as a sacrifice to the Dark Gods of the warp.
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NPCFor many years, luck was on the Cold Trader's side. He even found a certain satisfaction in working under the law without fear of guards or rivals. But one sad day, he lost the certificate that gave him his power... in the same manner in which he had acquired it.
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NPCBut Falco's previous dirty dealings were not forgotten by the law-abiding subjects of the Imperium. The sight of the successful Cold Trader living without fear of retribution made people furious, and the esteemed merchant soon met his end. The Kasballica Mission could not suffer one so hated to live.
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Entry point 201 of 593
NPCResisting the temptations that besieged him, Calligos Winterscale returned to his domain and began to piece together the shattered remains of his protectorate. Until his dying day, his actions and thoughts were dedicated to saving abandoned worlds and protecting survivors. Alas, he was not able to achieve much in the time he was allotted. He breathed his last breath on the same throne that he refused to leave for decades, adamantly refusing augmetics that would restore mobility and power to his legs.
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Entry point 202 of 593
NPCYrliet Lanaevyss lost faith in her kin who had followed the blind Farseers like obedient cattle. She accompanied the Rogue Trader for a time, but her time among the mon-keigh only made her feel more alone, revealing to her that humans were as bereft of strong spirit and will as the Children of Asuryan.
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NPCFor many long years, Yrliet travelled at the Rogue Trader's side, helping him/her decipher the secrets of lost xenos races and lending him/her the wisdom of her kind. Half a century later, she sensed that it was time to say goodbye — the Path of the Outcast had come to an end.
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NPCYrliet reunited with her surviving kin from Crudarach and embarked with them on a journey toward the distant stars on the fringes of the Expanse. At first, she kept in contact with the Rogue Trader, but as the years passed her communications grew less frequent, until one day they stopped entirely.
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Entry point 205 of 593
NPCHer elantach was all that kept Yrliet among the mon-keigh, but her heart was restless, and her soul bled from journeys through the warp. Her lone expeditions in search of spirit stones grew longer and more frequent.
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Entry point 206 of 593
NPCBut though her heart ached for home, she could not leave her elantach. Rejected by her kin and deprived of a spirit stone and protection from the filthy claws of Slaanesh, the Aeldari withered away like a bird in a cage. Yrliet was to be found more often in meditation, trying to escape her suffocating reality. Each time her search for strength in the depths of her soul took longer and longer.
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NPCYrliet Lanaevyss remained a prisoner of Commorragh, in soul and body, until the end of her days. Her re-education was put in the hands of the best Wyches, and her body was given over to the finest masters of flesh. Soon enough, the Child of Asuryan corrupted her own spirit stone, proving to her dark kin that she was one of them.
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Entry point 208 of 593
NPCHatred and disdain for her kin who had rejected her and taken away her home filled Yrliet Lanaevyss's soul with venom. For a time, she accompanied the Rogue Trader, but the Path of the Outcast only led to oblivion. Everything changed when a mysterious xenos in motley garb arrived uninvited on the von Valancius flagship and offered her an opportunity. A new role awaited her — but the chroniclers of the Imperium know nothing of it.
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Entry point 209 of 593
NPCMarazhai Aezyrraesh died by the Rogue Trader's hand, but the mark he left on the Lord Captain's soul never disappeared. Poisoned by the venom that was injected into his/her veins by his/her skilled and sadistic lover, over the years [Name] was consumed more and more by a haunting and insatiable thirst for heinous pleasures, heedless of the suffering of others.
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NPCThough they had once been allies, Marazhai never mentioned his human patron from the von Valancius dynasty again. The forces that [Name] now served were too terrifying and repulsive even for the unholy xenos.
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NPCThorbald Ironhide led the Stormbiters for decades more, exterminating evil in the Expanse and adding glorious verses to the saga of his pack. When he fell, his successor, Halbrandt, decided it was time for the Wolves to return home, and so he led the pack into the Maw. Whether they were successful in returning to Fenris is unknown.
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NPCThough the chronicles mention one Vackemo, a boarder who served under an unknown Rogue Trader.
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NPCSome whispered of a special, dark, and wicked bond between the Rogue Trader and Marazhai... of xenos ships secretly docking with the von Valancius flagship, of bloody nights full of screaming victims and delirious laughter shared between maniacs, of macabre traces of the orgies the lovers left behind.
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NPCThough he left, Marazhai never could fully part with the Rogue Trader, as their unbreakable bond went beyond simple passions. The inhuman was seen many times in realspace at the side of the Lord Captain, who had forced the indomitable Marazhai to recognise him/her as an equal. Bloody orgies aboard the dynasty's flagship spawned bloodcurdling legends. There were also whispers of mysterious attacks on von Valancius enemies by Aezyrraesh's subordinates.
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NPCMarazhai Aezyrraesh, exile from Commorragh and murderer of his own Kabal, did not remain in the Rogue Trader's retinue for long. Broken by his many losses and unable to cope with the bitterness of his unfulfilled ambitions, the Drukhari found rapture in another role. People say he left the flagship of the von Valancius dynasty in the company of a mysterious and colourful xenos — the same one who took Yrliet Lanaevyss on the same day. The Imperium's chronicles know nothing of the fate of Marazhai. Only the Laughing God Cegorach knows that with the disappearance of the Asuryani and Drukhari, in the depths of the Webway two new Harlequin masques were born.
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Entry point 216 of 593
NPCThe Mercatum Tabula Officiale unlocked a sea of possibilities for Jae Heydari. She left the Kasballica Mission and became an independent agent. Choosing one's destiny is a unique gift that ordinary mortals would never dare dream of, but Jae was no ordinary mortal. She found new friends, skilfully danced along the knife's edge between trade and piracy, stole from the strong, granted mercy to the weak, and even bought a couple of modest planets — and she never, ever betrayed herself. Half a century later, her life was tragically cut short — a weak and little-known Rogue Trader dynasty, led by a young and ambitious leader, ambushed and captured Jae Heydari in order to appropriate her wealth. The von Valancius fleet's strike was lightning-fast, but Mistress Heydari could not be saved — she died in the hands of her avaricious captors.
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Entry point 217 of 593
NPCEnjoying the privileges of the Mercatum Tabula Officiale, Jae Heydari found her way into the heart of the Expanse's underworld. She became known as the Baroness of Shadows — having amassed so much wealth and influence, she came to control the economic fate of the sector. Even the most powerful figures in the Expanse were forced to reckon with her... reckon with and despise her. For a long time, Jae was able to thwart the attempts on her life, until one day she disappeared. But many continued to believe that she still rules the Expanse from shadows even deeper than before.
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NPCThe Harlequin known as Nocturne of Oblivion visited the Expanse once again. Sneaking onto Dargonus, he came to the Rogue Trader's palace and left him/her a special gift: a case of Aeldari crafting, unmistakably ancient and precious, adorned with the rune of an eye inside a triangle. Only the Lord Captain knew what it contained. The Harlequin candidly warned him/her that he was drawing the von Valancius dynasty into "a deadly dance, a shaking doom, that all will freeze within the threads of terror's loom." Then he promptly departed, and not without reason — a few hours later, assassins from the Dark City appeared, following his trail, and were mercilessly killed. Their armour bore the sign of the Kabal of the Black Heart.
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Entry point 220 of 593
NPCJae Heydari basked in the Rogue Trader's light for many years, trying to make the most of such illustrious patronage. Alas, her appetites were insatiable, and two decades later, she brazenly attempted a coup. It was a failure, and she found herself on the executioner's block. Before the end, she bestowed one of her famous smiles on the thronging rabble in farewell.
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Entry point 221 of 593
NPCAfter accepting a position as the Rogue Trader's right hand, Jae Heydari received several worlds to oversee. But after several years of peace and prosperity, she once again began bending the law to see if it would break. Within a decade, her crimes had exceeded the limits of the Imperium's patience, and she became a wanted woman. For the rest of her life, she was forced to hide from those who wanted vengeance... and her head.
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Entry point 222 of 593
NPCThe Drusian preachers dwelling on the station turned into grim ascetics, ridden with ulcers and swelling with disease. Many voidsmen looking for redemption were attracted to the new forbidding image of the cult. Rumours abounded that the recurring technical breakdowns poisoning entire asteroids were the work of the Drusians, who led their flock through suffering to faith. A new faith.
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NPCJae Heydari died in the sewers of Footfall among the void rats, wretches, and thugs. Her body was found torn to pieces in a stinking canal next to the remains of her gang and the corpse of the Cold Trader Falco. An arm augmetic had been driven into his throat, its gilded fingers curled in an obscene gesture.
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NPCIn her journeys with the Rogue Trader, Cassia Orsellio experienced all the hardships and delights of the galaxy. The invaluable experience and new knowledge helped her to finally conquer her fears and accept herself and her powers. The Lady Navigator became Novator of her House, tasked with addressing the consequences of Tisiphone's rule and the chaos that followed her disappearance. For the duration of her reign, she patiently worked on uniting the feuding branches of the House, forging alliances and expanding the influence of House Orsellio.
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Entry point 226 of 593
NPCAfter bidding farewell to her elantach, Yrliet made her way to her surviving kin.
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NPCMany lost their lives, but those who survived the crisis became hardened veterans and pillars of the House. Most of those fortunate souls were young and brave, too few among them were old and wise.
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NPCOne day, Yrliet returned to find the elantach on his/her deathbed — her search had taken decades, yet decades pass without notice for Aeldari. Yrliet spent the elantach's final days with him/her, and when the time came for death to place its hand on the Rogue Trader's shoulder, she sank into his/her world one last time. The elantach, young again, looked at her and smiled. Tears burned Yrliet's skin, and then the dim light of the human soul faded. Yrliet touched the elantach's wrist to check his/her pulse. She closed her eyes, sighed, and left the von Valancius protectorate, never to return.
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Entry point 229 of 593
NPCYrliet followed a new Path, the Path of the Warrior. She only hoped she would never be forced to raise her weapon against the mortals who had become her true brothers and sisters in arms.
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NPCThe elantach him/herself put an end to this torment. Not willing to see Yrliet wither away in an alien world, he/she persuaded the Aeldari to leave the Expanse. It seems that some things are just not meant to be, and a happy union between a mon-keigh and an Aeldari warrior is one of them.
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NPCThe elantach him/herself put an end to this torment. Not willing to see Yrliet wither away in an alien world, he/she persuaded the Aeldari to leave the Expanse. It seems that some things are just not meant to be, and a happy union between a mon-keigh and an Aeldari warrior is one of them.
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NPCHieronymus Doloroso remained the most revered priest in the Cult of Saint Drusus. He turned no one away, hearing confessions from pirates, bilge rats, deserters, and beggars alike. It might have been one of those undeserving wretches who infected him with the rare form of leprosy that robbed him of his sight. Yet his heart could always see the corruption in the souls of his repenting children.
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Entry point 233 of 593
NPCCassia's heart was ground to dust by her lover's betrayal. Trembling in terror and avoiding the touch of the one she had once called her Lord Captain, she opened her Third Eye and disappeared in a horrendous manifestation of Empyrean might.
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Entry point 234 of 593
NPCA note was found on her body — the confession of a girl from the underhive, who by some miracle had managed to break free from her destiny, who had found fame, riches, and even a person she was bold enough to love. Yet, as fate would have it, her fame, thrones, and love turned out to be lies, just like her foolish hope of escaping her destiny, which doomed her to die alone in the dark without a crumb of food or a drop of water.
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Entry point 235 of 593
NPCIn her final moments, she tried to break into the world of the one she called her elantach, to understand how a betrayal so vile could ripen in the heart of one so dear to her. The things she saw there were so heinous that the heart of valiant Yrliet stopped beating that very instant.
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Entry point 236 of 593
NPCTheir love was like a candle flame: warm, tremulous, insatiable, and... quickly extinguished. When Cassia took the throne as Novator, love gave way to duty. Some praised their doomed love over glasses of amasec, while others cursed it and spat in disgust. Yet, even after entering an arranged dynastic marriage and passing on her precious genes, Cassia kept in contact with the only person she had ever fully loved until her dying day.
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Entry point 237 of 593
NPCTheir love was delicate and selfless. The Lord Captain and the Lady Navigator wordlessly understood and accepted each other's feelings. Even after Cassia ascended the throne as Novator, she spurned all claims on her hand and heart, remaining loyal to her first and only love. As the years passed, mutations transformed her body, but the bond between the Lord Captain and the Lady Navigator endured and they continued to find solace and consolation in each other.
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NPCNovator Cassia Orsellio and Rogue Trader [Name] von Valancius were joined in matrimony, securing a powerful alliance. Sadly, their countless concerns and responsibilities prevented the spouses from seeing much of one other, keeping them apart for months and sometimes years at a time. Although no passion or love kindled in their union, they held one other in genuine esteem.
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NPCThe truth of the fate of the Aeldari Yrliet Lanaevyss, whom the Rogue Trader handed over to the servants of the Ordo Xenos, was kept hidden from the uninitiated.
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Entry point 241 of 593
NPCGathering its bleeding worlds together again, the Rogue Trader restored order in the Expanse without compromise, protecting the faith and leaving behind any notion that the region could ever be beyond His righteous justice. An expansion began that would slowly turn the sector into a new province of the Imperium, where Rogue Traders were no longer needed.
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NPCYet the conflict between the Imperium and the head of the von Valancius dynasty could not but affect the young order. Some sisters demanded that Argenta denounce her former commander.
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NPCUnable to choose between the order she had created and the person without whom she could not have completed her journey, she stepped down from her position and went into exile. Despite everything, love for her among the people of the Expanse only grew. Argenta would be the heroine of songs and tales for centuries to come, a radiant angel who would appear in the darkest hour to protect innocents from the forces of darkness.
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NPCRumours said that Argenta was lured there under false pretences by her former allies. It may have even been [Name] von Valancius him/herself, unwilling to kill her off or tolerate her raging desire to cleanse the Expanse of heresy. No one knows the truth, but many gave a sigh of relief after her disappearance.
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NPCSince then, there have been incessant pilgrimages in search of Salis Prime. Legend has it that the renowned Argenta wanders the ancient ship, awaiting the hero of purest heart to whom she will bestow the One Star, and mercilessly slaying those in whom she detects even a sliver of darkness. No one knows whether the legend is true, yet of the thousands who have tried to enter the ancient ship, not one has returned alive.
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NPCMost of the miracles came down to technology refusing to obey xenos and heretics, turning against them and leading them to their demise. Several non-human or non-Imperium worlds were set back in their development, as their inhabitants saw any machine as a potential threat.
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NPCMost of the miracles came down to machines coming to life to save someone from danger, damaged shuttles safely reaching the ground even without engines, or cogitators suddenly addressing their operators with words of encouragement and support, scaring them speechless.
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Entry point 248 of 593
NPCSuch "miracles" were as bizarre as they were terrifying and often resulted in death and destruction.
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NPCThere were many who wanted to find the source of these strange phenomena, yet Nomos were sufficiently cautious to avoid apprehension.
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NPCAfter fleeing the retinue of the corrupted Rogue Trader, Yrliet Lanaevyss disappeared without a trace. However, soon after, high-standing nobles on von Valancius planets who displayed their loyalty to the Ruinous Powers too openly started dying. Each was slain by a single clean shot, and the assassin was never found.
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Entry point 251 of 593
NPCIdira did not remain a servant of the von Valancius dynasty for long. Her travels with the Lord Captain had changed her. She was as lively and talkative as ever, but she had also developed a tendency toward rumination. Idira was now sometimes seen in a place she had barely visited before — the ship's chapel — deep in thought or prayer. Curiously, the warp phenomena that haunted her became less and less frequent. Yet Idira did not seem reassured by this and ultimately decided to go into exile — a pilgrimage, she called it — to protect people from herself. Her trail disappeared somewhere in the Expanse, yet the memory of her lives on.
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NPCThe sisters of the Order of the One Star, founded by Argenta, another companion of the Lord Captain, often mentioned Idira in their sermons as an example of a transgressor who found the light.
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NPCThe Expanse is full of strange stories, yet one of the most bizarre tales emerged in the wake of Rogue Trader von Valancius's rise to prominence. According to the legend, on every world the Rogue Trader visited, people or objects would suddenly vanish without a trace if they found themselves in the same room as a mirror, even an utterly ordinary one.
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NPCUralon the Cruel was not an advisor to the Rogue Trader for long. During a session of vile worship with his master/mistress, he was struck by a vision that was equally frightening and awe-inspiring. The terror instilled in the heart of the hardened heretic was so profound and incomprehensible that Uralon promptly embarked on a journey. The Eye of Terror itself was his goal. There he hoped to find someone who could interpret the vision that had overwhelmed him. No one could say if fate would ever lead him back to the Expanse, or if the Rogue Trader would accept him if it did.
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NPCWhen enemies came down on the von Valancius protectorate from all sides, young Evayne was the only one to not take part in the savage assault, choosing instead to take in many refugees who had been stained by their service to the betrayer of Humanity.
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Entry point 256 of 593
NPCNoble preachers of the Creed performed acts of heroism to protect von Valancius servants from destruction at the hands of the vengeful attackers. Thousands of innocents were evacuated on pilgrim ships to new worlds to seek shelter in young colonies.
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NPCWhen wrathful rivals attacked the von Valancius protectorate, the Explorators did not forget their bonds of alliance, choosing to save... the things they deemed worthy of salvation — extensive libraries, sacred mechanisms, and manufacturing complexes.
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NPCThe news from the Expanse was met with deep concern in the Imperium. Some began speaking of a punitive campaign, though they quickly fell silent. A lone ship broke through the Great Rift, carrying a letter to Dargonus bearing the Inquisition's seal. But what the letter contained, and who penned it... is better left unknown.
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Entry point 260 of 593
NPCHeinrix van Calox, former Interrogator of the Ordo Xenos, left the path ordained for him and denounced the Holy Inquisition in order to remain with his beloved. Chroniclers to this day cannot agree on the reason for his betrayal: was it a flaw in his character? Some hidden taint that poisoned the soul of a once faithful subject of the Imperium? Or was it a sentiment so profound that the God-Emperor's numb servants could never comprehend it?
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Entry point 261 of 593
NPCAcross many systems, power was seized by heresiarchs and pirate leaders. When they failed to find a common enemy, they turned their weapons on each other, and the Expanse sank into even darker depths of bloody anarchy.
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Entry point 262 of 593
NPCReturning with his magnificent trophy, Xavier Calcazar solemnly handed the regalia of the Warden of the Expanse to the Rogue Trader. He did not call off the martial law he had declared at the start of the crisis — the Lord Inquisitor had had enough of the disorder that reigned in the Expanse and wanted to make sure that power remained firmly in one trusted pair of hands. As for himself, he wanted to embark as soon as possible on a search for the next C'tan Shard, but fate did not allow him to continue this grand quest.
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Entry point 263 of 593
NPCVladaym Tocara, former crime lord and smuggler, managed surprisingly well in the role of janitor. Climbing the hierarchical ladder, he eventually obtained a pardon and became an administrator of high standing on Dargonus. His business acumen, shrewdness, and willingness to get his hands dirty brought success to his operations, but he was unable to enjoy the fruits of his labour — until the end of his days, he resided in modest quarters and avoided any luxury, afraid of being accused of corruption and, in his own words, "thrown for a loop."
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Entry point 264 of 593
NPCIn Epitaph's orbit, the von Valancius flagship took a last stand against the creature that had once been its Lord Captain. The crew met grizzly ends to the last man at the frigid hands of the former Rogue Trader when he/she broke onto the bridge from the cold void.
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Entry point 265 of 593
NPCIdira showed her treacherous nature and almost brought about the demise of the Rogue Trader's ship.
NPCDuring a warp jump, the witch suddenly ripped out the xenodevice that dampened her power, howled in a choir of inhuman voices, and turned into something resembling a door made of flesh and bone. Still alive in her new manifestation, the psyker commanded that a passage be opened, erupting and becoming a portal to the Immaterium in a burst of horror made flesh. Any data regarding what was behind that door or how it was destroyed was confiscated by the Inquisition. Several hundred crew members died before the Lord Captain destroyed the portal.
NPCAmong honest servants of the Imperium, the case would become one of the Expanse's most common cautionary tales about the danger of unsanctioned psykers.
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NPCDriven mad by her looming death during a warp jump, the witch exploded in hysterical laughter and threw hideous curses at the Rogue Trader. She shrieked that she was "opening the door," and turned one of the decks into a manifestation of her ill will. The floor and bulkheads became covered in thousands of chattering mouths and faces, driving any who heard their insidious voices mad and dragging victims down to be torn apart by steel teeth and tongues. Idira revelled in the insanity until the Rogue Trader him/herself put her out of her misery.
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Entry point 266 of 593
NPCAbel Haneumann did not long outlive his tech-comrade. He withered away in his cell, passing seemingly without cause, simply willing his vital functions to cease.
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Entry point 267 of 593
NPCAfter the battle on Epitaph, Argenta was firmly set on the path of a Sister Repentia. Her former fervour and zeal gave way to grim, cold resignation. She longed for death, yet death seemed to flee before the former companion of the Lord Captain... Or, perhaps, she just could not find a worthy opponent. So things carried on, until one day, while fighting heretics on an uncharted world, Argenta threw herself into a massive inferno to strike down a horrendous warp spawn. Her comrades saw only shadows in the fire and heard the beast's dying bellow. The flames burned for several days. When they finally subsided, Argenta's body was found among the charred rubble, lifeless but untouched by the fire. In one hand she held her chainsword, in the other — a shard of the golden Aquila she had always kept close ever since arriving in the Expanse.
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Entry point 268 of 593
NPCNovator Cassia shut herself in her chambers for many days. When she emerged, she wielded the most fearsome weapon House Orsellio had ever seen. She had transformed the Starway Atlas itself into an instrument of destruction. With it, she was able to exterminate the various xenos encroaching on her House. After celebrating her victory, to everyone's astonishment she suddenly decided to continue the research that Novator Tisiphone had started, though it was no secret that she had held it in great contempt in the past. The Novator knew that the Starway Atlas was slowly becoming twisted, that the xenos would doubtless return, and that she had a duty to protect her House.
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Entry point 269 of 593
NPCTired, afraid, and angered by their own weakness without the Atlases, the Navigators rose up against the Novator.
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Entry point 270 of 593
NPCHeinrix van Calox, traitor to the Imperium and breaker of the sacred oaths of the Inquisition, did not survive his last journey with the betrayer of Humanity for whom he had renounced his duty. [Name] von Valancius, now vassal to an ancient horror, took his life. She destroyed her former lover not for trying to kill her but for appealing to her mind and heart.
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Entry point 271 of 593
NPCIdira Tlass, who was never able to subdue the whispers in her head, fell back on her old crutches of prohibited stimulants and amasec. People often saw her talking to an imaginary "Theodora" or deliriously muttering to herself in a dark corner. One day she was found with a hole in her head, sitting at the desk where Theodora von Valancius had died. She held an autopistol in one hand and in the other an open bottle of Flame of Purity wine — Lady Theodora's libation of choice.
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Entry point 273 of 593
NPCBy a twist of fate, when the Rogue Trader joined the Koronus Conclave, Heinrix van Calox became the Lord Captain's commanding officer. He gleefully took advantage of every opportunity to chastise and order the Rogue Trader around.
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Entry point 274 of 593
NPCThe Lord Inquisitor found a most loyal ally in Incendia Chorda. She gladly became a lethal instrument of retribution in van Calox's hands, knowing no rest.
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Entry point 275 of 593
NPCNovator Cassia mustered all the might of her House and set off for distant stars. Ensnared by Cassia's Starway Atlas, not a single Navigator could ignore the call to battle. The Novator launched a retaliatory strike on mysterious assassins — xenos in motley garb. Disaster struck during the victorious campaign's triumphal celebration — the Novator lost her mind. In a fit of madness, she destroyed the Starway Atlas and disappeared in a hideous manifestation of the Immaterium. Most of her subjects died that very day, connected to the Atlas by their spiritual bonds. The Orsellio name fell into oblivion along with them.
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Entry point 276 of 593
NPCLacking an iron will and an aptitude for command, Novator Cassia was not able to build a sufficient bulwark around her rule, and disgruntled members of House Orsellio decided to rebel. They set out to depose Lady Cassia and install a worthy protector on the throne instead. Their plan only half worked — to avenge Cassia's death, the Rogue Trader brutally crushed everyone who bore the Orsellio name.
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Entry point 277 of 593
NPCYears later, House Orsellio was racked by a wave of brutal murders. Unknown assailants butchered Navigators, gouging the Atlases from their chests.
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Entry point 278 of 593
NPCThe xenos Marazhai Aezyrraesh vanished without a trace after his powerful patron betrayed the unholy alien into the hands of the Holy Inquisition.
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Entry point 279 of 593
NPCThe Starway Atlas, which contained the memories of Tisiphone and the Setthala clan, lost its power. House Orsellio's Navigators once again had to rely on skill alone in the depths of the Immaterium.
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Entry point 280 of 593
NPCDespite scandalous rumours about a love affair with the Rogue Trader, Lady Navigator Cassia continued to accompany her lover among the stars of the Expanse for a time.
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Entry point 281 of 593
NPCCassia crushed the rebellion with an iron fist. She desperately tried to bring her House back from ruin and recreate the Atlas that had been so unwisely destroyed, but fate was not on her side. She eventually left the post of Novator and passed the unwanted title to a young heir.
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Entry point 282 of 593
NPCThe Lord Inquisitor delved deeper and deeper into dangerous and obscure fields of study. Having succeeded in shackling one ancient beast, he now wanted to repeat his success. The Imperium would never be safe while its enemies yet lived.
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Entry point 283 of 593
NPCHouse Orsellio did not dare oppose the Rogue Trader and became embroiled in a bloody internecine war for power. Its members and genetic bounty were wiped out in the fighting, the House collapsed, and it was eventually assimilated into other more influential Navigator Houses. Lady Cassia did not make any attempts to save her House from oblivion.
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Entry point 284 of 593
NPCHouse Orsellio did not dare oppose the Rogue Trader, and its struggle to determine a new Novator did not last long. It soon fell victim to a series of bloody assassinations. Some said the perpetrators were mysterious xenos in motley garb who brutally slaughtered their victims, gouging the Atlases from their chests. The fall of House Orsellio was quick, bloody, and mysterious. Lady Cassia did not intervene to stop the massacre.
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Entry point 285 of 593
NPCThe entire Expanse knew of the bond between Jae and the Rogue Trader. The smuggler accompanied her Lord Captain on many dangerous adventures, and their passion for each other burned as fiercely as on the first day they met. Yet as soon as a journey ended, Jae would disappear, sometimes without any notice. No matter how much she enjoyed the Rogue Trader's company, the accomplished smuggler never allowed their relationship to turn into something more. The only master Jae Heydari would ever need was Jae Heydari.
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Entry point 286 of 593
NPCOnce known for her passionate nature, after meeting the Lord Captain Jae firmly refused to share her favour with all others who sought it. After the many adversities they had braved together, her heart belonged to the Rogue Trader. Decades later, a glorious ship was built on Kiava Gamma, which became the new flagship of House von Valancius. The proud vessel was named the Lady Jae.
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Entry point 287 of 593
NPCThe person known as Mercy never forgot the humiliation he suffered at the hands of Jae Heydari. Everyone she ever showed affection for would mysteriously die in some tragic way, and the sorrow of never-ending loss poisoned her heart. Only one person escaped this fate, and his/her name was [Name] von Valancius.
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Entry point 288 of 593
NPCEven the momentous events on Epitaph could not silence the call in Argenta's soul for the mysterious relic she so eagerly sought. The Sister of Battle left the Rogue Trader's retinue and embarked on a solitary pilgrimage in search of Salis Prime. Her fate after that is unknown.
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Entry point 289 of 593
NPCFor many years, old Ryzza presided over the captains of the Fellowship. At the end of her life, she once again took the helm of a ship and led an unprecedented attack on the mother squadron of the Cognisance Fleet, during which the attackers managed to seize a dozen transport ships loaded with the Omnissiah's sacred gifts.
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Entry point 290 of 593
NPCThe subjugated deity in House von Valancius's service ensured the Imperium's firm grip on the Expanse's throat. By eradicating enemies and unbelievers, the Rogue Trader bestowed a gift upon the sector — of faith in the certainty of retribution.
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NPCThe shackled monster under von Valancius's control ensured the survival of the fledgling utopia. The Star God destroyed all who threatened its peaceful civilians and instilled fear in those of little faith. The Expanse tasted the sweet fruit of freedom and tolerance with reverent fear.
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Entry point 292 of 593
NPCThe retribution that Nocturne of Oblivion promised the Rogue Trader arrived when relentless Aeldari avengers swept down on the von Valancius protectorate. In their wake, several Harlequin Troupes performed the monstrous and mesmerisingly bloody Melody of Coals Fading in the Night that bathed Janus in the sorrow and fury of the playwright in a horned mask.
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Entry point 293 of 593
NPCThe Imperium could not forgive such insolent deviation from the order prescribed by Holy Terra. The von Valancius dynasty was accused of the seditious formation of their own empire. An invasion fleet gathered in the Calixis Sector, and the young utopia did not outlive its creator.
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Entry point 294 of 593
NPCAbelard Werserian remained the Lord Captain's Seneschal and right hand until his dying breath. House Werserian, cleared of accusations of mutiny, dedicated itself to Dargonus's fleet. When, years later, Abelard left this world, the worthiest successor of his family received the honour of inheriting the high office of Seneschal.
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Entry point 295 of 593
NPCHaving completed his last journey with his Lord Captain, Abelard Werserian, with the gracious permission of the Rogue Trader, left his post as Seneschal and took over the helm of his large family.
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Entry point 296 of 593
NPCAfter losing his family, Abelard Werserian continued his service under the Rogue Trader. The embittered Seneschal established tyrannical rule on his decks. Several years later, he died at the hands of crewmen revolting against his draconian decrees and punishments.
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Entry point 297 of 593
NPCThe mysterious entity named Nomos left the von Valancius ship but not the Expanse. Rumours about machines behaving strangely and worryingly potent tech-miracles emerged every year on dozens of worlds.
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NPCThe mysterious entity named Nomos left the von Valancius ship but not the Expanse. Rumours about machines behaving strangely and worryingly potent tech-miracles emerged every year on dozens of worlds.
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NPCAfter Ryzza's death, her place was taken by a quiet man who simply called himself a Useful Acquaintance and was prone to coining his own nonsensical words. Few guessed that this scrawny fellow had been Ryzza's first mate, who possessed an iron will and a truly monstrous nature. On his quiet orders, the pirates conducted brazen and violent raids.
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NPCThere were many who wanted to find the source of these strange phenomena, yet Nomos were sufficiently cautious to avoid apprehension.
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NPCThere were many who wanted to find the source of these strange phenomena, yet Nomos were sufficiently cautious to avoid apprehension.
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NPCThorbald Ironhide led the Stormbiters for decades more, exterminating evil in the Expanse and adding glorious verses to the saga of his pack. When he fell, his successor, Halbrandt, decided it was time for the Wolves to return home, and so he led the pack into the Maw. Whether they were successful in returning to Fenris is unknown.
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Entry point 303 of 593
NPCInquisitor Heinrix van Calox continued to serve the Imperium and vanished under mysterious circumstances several years later. After receiving a signal encrypted with Inquisition codes, he travelled to an unknown distant world from which he never returned.
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Entry point 304 of 593
NPCThe esteemed Ulfar left the Rogue Trader's retinue and set out alone in search of his glorious pack. The Stormbiters tried to locate the defiant Wolf, but to no avail. He was forever lost in the darkness of the Expanse.
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NPCWhen the Rogue Trader's apostasy became apparent, the Imperial Navy fulfilled its duty and fought the von Valancius dynasty. The Battle of Dargonus ended in resounding defeat, and the surviving ships fled to distant systems. Disheartened but not broken, the captains vowed to rebuild their force and planned raids into the apostate territory.
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NPCHowever, the hunters were often struck by a peculiar blindness. After all, there were many former friends and business partners among the people they were sent to pursue.
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NPCThe crucial reason for the defeat was the extraordinarily high percentage of captains who betrayed their oaths and defected to the Rogue Trader's side. Overnight, he/she acquired a battle-ready fleet of his/her own.
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Entry point 308 of 593
NPCChartist Captain Austerius Thorfast founded the Thorfast and Companions Merchant Company, excelling in trade and acquiring a substantial escort fleet. After three decades, he travelled to the Maw to return to the Imperium in hopes of obtaining the fabled Warrant of Trade. It is not known how this venture ended.
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Entry point 309 of 593
NPCDargonus was subjected to horrific pillaging, millions were put to death, and blood ran through the streets. After the von Valancius treasures were stolen, the abode of the traitor to Humanity was bombed with cyclonic torpedoes from orbit. The once glorious world was lost.
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Entry point 310 of 593
NPCA multitude of agreements bound the Imperial Navy to the von Valancius dynasty. Captains were eager to patrol the protectorate, knowing they would be richly rewarded. Competing ships were lost to "pirate attacks" and subjected to harsh inspections. Many officers quietly entered the dynasty's service, receiving a salary and title in exchange for their excellent skills. Worthy admirals valued their new friends and enjoyed more gold on their uniforms.
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NPCThe Kasballica Mission thrived on the riches it acquired in its deals with the Rogue Trader. The organisation expanded to new markets, built up a mercenary army and fleet, and was ready to defend the legitimacy of its business from the authorities. Those foolish enough to deny it that right died quick, brutal, and unexplained deaths.
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NPCKiava Gamma prepared to fight back, but the battle was brief. The servants of the Adeptus Mechanicus conspired with their fellow adepts in the avenging fleet, stabbing the planet's garrison in the back. The world was captured quickly, and the unharmed sacred workshops were turned over to the disciples of the Omnissiah.
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Entry point 313 of 593
NPCAfter the obliteration of Dargonus, the surviving forces of the renegade Rogue Trader gathered on Janus. Here the second major battle was fought, and the backbone of the treasonous dynasty was broken. In a three-day battle, the tank tracks drove the abomination banners into the mud and the heretics were burned along with the crops, their weapons drowned in the irrigation canals. Fertilised with the ashes of the apostates, the fields yielded a bountiful harvest for many seasons to come.
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NPCAn ungodly massacre took place on Foulstone in the last days of the von Valancius protectorate. Millions of pilgrims blindly rejected the news of the Rogue Trader's apostasy and tried to fight back against the forces loyal to the Imperium, until holy statues crumbled under the volleys of macro-cannons and innumerable pious souls perished with the betrayer's name on their lips.
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NPCVheabos VI was swiftly overrun by the avenging force. Its mines became the final place of exile for the servants of the disgraced Rogue Trader.
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NPCHumanity was exploring the Expanse, and Dargonus became the capital for the brave starfarers and pioneers. It was from here that expeditions departed into the uncharted wilderness and here they returned bearing wondrous trophies. Captains, cartographers, and scribes flocked here to exchange news.
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NPCThe voracious and shameless nobility of the Expanse flocked to Dargonus in search of the forbidden pleasures. Its librariums harboured dangerous volumes and its dark corners harboured dangerous people. The rule of law could not reach the tops of the spires, shrouded in a veil of sinister and mystical rumours.
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NPCDargonus became the bastion of order in the Expanse. From here, punitive expeditions were dispatched to tainted worlds, and entire spires were occupied by officials and bureaucrats of the Imperium. On many planets, the expression "a man from Dargonus" soon came to mean a fearsome inspector with the power to impose punishment.
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Entry point 319 of 593
NPCThe mines of Vheabos VI grew deeper and deeper, and soon the planet became the darkest and most frightening colony of the Expanse, the final stop for the exiled and the damned. The brutal, hardened inhabitants of the death world feared neither humans nor xenohorrors, knew no mercy, and were known as the most fearsome fighters in the sector, who had traded their lives for the right to leave the eternal darkness of the mines.
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Entry point 320 of 593
NPCOver time, Vheabos VI became the largest pirate den in the Expanse. From here the void skulkers set out on their raids, and this was where they stored their loot and licked their wounds, knowing that not even the Imperial Navy would risk setting foot on the formidable Vheabos.
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NPCThe harsh Vheabos VI became a land of trials capable of testing one's righteousness. The repentant and the zealous alike flocked there to be purified and toughened by its poisonous atmosphere. In the ominous halls of the Fortress of Penance, the Grim Guard was established, an order of crusaders who guarded the purity of the Expanse, renowned for their tenacity and feared for their unyielding fanaticism.
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Entry point 322 of 593
NPCThe mysterious entity named Nomos left the von Valancius ship but not the Expanse. Rumours about machines behaving strangely and worryingly potent tech-miracles emerged every year on dozens of worlds.
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NPCThe enthroned Null Caliph drew millions of pilgrims and granted the planet hallowed status. Its sacred calculation continued for centuries, and the foremost sages of the Adeptus Mechanicus travelled to the world so they could attempt to divine its meaning.
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NPCThe subjugation of Null Caliph left the Adeptus Mechanicus in awe. Kneeling before the chained demigod, they lost their resolve and no longer interfered in the governance of the colony. With ever increasing boldness, the Rogue Trader's viceroys gained access to sacraments inaccessible to the laity and handed them over to their master/mistress.
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NPCThe parasitic demigod was no more. Freed from the tyranny of Null Caliph, Kiava Gamma surged with new life. Spires grew, manufactorums multiplied, and greedy transports jostled at the docks. Only occasionally, a mysterious data-ghost manifested in the noosphere of the sacred workshops and proclaimed with dismay: "Error! Calculation interrupted!" But no one knew what calamity it was trying to prevent.
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Entry point 326 of 593
NPCTreasures and influence quickly corrupted the supreme hierarchs of Foulstone, turning them into a coterie of venal egotists anointed by greed. As they did dirty deeds under the cover of holy vestments, their power steadily grew. It is hardly surprising that a few years later the hierarchs of Foulstone recognised the blood relationship between their patrons the von Valancius dynasty and Saint Cognatius himself.
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Entry point 327 of 593
NPCConverted into a comet shrine, Foulstone's moon spread the word of Saint Cognatius throughout the Expanse. Protecting worlds from attacks by the enemies of Humanity, its servants asked for neither money nor power, but only the relics left by their blessed patron. The wise handed them over with reverence, while the haughty learned how heavy the Hammer of Foulstone was.
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Entry point 328 of 593
NPCThe Order of the Hammer grew in power and prominence thanks to the Rogue Trader's patronage. So widespread was the reverence for Cognatius that he supplanted Drusus the Warrior on his pedestal as the most honoured saint in the Expanse. The Drusian cult did not forgive this, and feuds broke out between the clergies, but the warlike servants of the Hammer were not afraid of bloodshed.
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NPCThe fate of the Pure-Voiced Prophet, guardian of the hallowed Crucible, was a sad one. After visiting seven worlds and bestowing the blessing of transformation upon them, he perished at the hands of bloodthirsty Drukhari pirates along with his retinue and the priceless relic.
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Entry point 330 of 593
NPCBleeding from hundreds of wounds, Master Helmsman Ravor led the ship to ram the ominous tomb. A crushing blow split the sinister xenos edifice, but even that was not enough to defeat the C'tan.
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Entry point 331 of 593
NPCHigh Factotum Janris Danrok fell, shielding the Vox Master from devastating blows with his corpulent body. Honed by many years of calculations, his mind correctly predicted there was no hope of victory or salvation, and so spreading the news of the terrible disaster to others was the only thing that mattered.
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Entry point 332 of 593
NPCVigdis Surri Otta of the Toliman line was on every vox-frequency carrying the news of the heinous treason that had been committed. Her voice did not tremble with horror when she uttered the terrible words, "Rogue Trader von Valancius has betrayed Humanity." Then she fell silent.
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Entry point 333 of 593
NPCThe austere House Sauerback found protection in the Cult of Saint Drusus. Donating their riches to those in need, they became grim and fierce champions of faith, leading the rabble in the fight against evil.
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Entry point 334 of 593
NPCJanus became a melting pot for cultures from hundreds of worlds, taking in refugees from across the entire Expanse in its darkest hour. It became a stronghold and a symbol of hope. After the crisis passed, the refugees started to return to their home planets and to reclaim the lost worlds, thus earning Janus the proud name — the Home of the Reconquista.
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NPCThe dark rule of the seekers of the forbidden was established on Janus. While terrified serfs toiled in the fields, in the lofty castles, wise renegades studied the knowledge of the xenos, learned their filthy language, and embraced their culture. The mists born of irrigation devices hid the evil work from the righteous.
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NPCJanus was among the worlds hit by the savage retribution of the xenos.
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NPCDespite grim expectations, the coexistence of humans and the Aeldari did not lead to enmity. Janus had faced many trials, and the struggle against them brought the two peoples together. They did not develop an affection for one another, but they learned to speak with no weapons in their hands. More than one dangerous xenophile schism was born on Janus.
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NPCThe ruthlessness with which Cassia persecuted dissent did not go unnoticed. Jae Heydari met with her former companion twice and appealed to her mercy. Their second meeting ended in a deadly quarrel, and it was soon discovered that Kasballica Mission ships were helping the Orsellio dissidents to escape reprisal. Cassia publicly swore revenge on Lady Heydari for betraying her former friendship.
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Entry point 339 of 593
NPCBlessed Sister Argenta spent many cycles looking for Ulfar to try to save him from his despair. When she caught up with him on a bloody path littered with bodies of enemies of Humanity, she begged Ulfar to become a paladin of the Order of the One Star, promising hope and companionship. But the Lone Wolf did not heed the words of the good sister.
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Entry point 340 of 593
NPCMarazhai and Yrliet's fleets often hunted together. Their kin wondered how the two captains were getting along. The Outcast and the former Dracon bonded over the horrors they had both experienced — the incursions in the Immaterium during their journeys with the Rogue Trader had left a grim mark on their souls.
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NPCInterrogation revealed that the most likely instigator was the esteemed Seneschal Werserian, outraged by the execution of several crew members. However, Abelard denied his involvement even when questioned by the Rogue Trader.
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NPCAbelard found himself at her side that day. He could have walked away, but he stayed by Idira's side until the last second, trying to keep her mind from collapsing. His body was never found after the incident.
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NPCIt is rumoured that the true cause of Thorbald Ironhide's demise was treachery. Faced with a superior enemy, the Space Wolves called on their allies for help, but a nearby squadron of the Cognisance Fleet withdrew, defiantly broadcasting that "The blood debt to Archmagos Amarnat is not forgotten."
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NPCSeeing a true champion of the Dark Gods in the Rogue Trader, the Word Bearers established themselves in the von Valancius demesne. Thousands of scribes scratched away on data-slates, slowly losing their minds as they recorded the words of unholy teachings, and thousands of voxes broadcast the Word Bearers' hideous sermons across the Expanse.
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NPCRumour has it that Yrliet and Pasqal met again among the alien stars. A band of Aeldari warriors were trying to protect an ancient planetary edifice of their people from the covetous servants of the Omnissiah. Upon learning that Yrliet was leading the xenos, Pasqal personally descended to the planet and struck down his former comrade-in-arms. Her death did not stir any feelings in his metallic heart.
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Entry point 346 of 593
NPCYears later, Marazhai's name resounded through the Expanse once more. His gang had intercepted Astartia Werserian's ship. Her head was delivered to Abelard with a note informing him that it was "a gift from an old acquaintance in remembrance of a glorious past." Abelard's grief sent him on a six-year-long hunt for the despicable xenos, which, sadly, was unsuccessful.
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Entry point 347 of 593
NPCIt is said that the xenos Marazhai travelled to these dark sectors to hunt down and exterminate the beast more than once, but each time he limped back in a sorry state. He was proud of his experience, however, and believed that one day he would succeed.
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Entry point 348 of 593
NPCIt is rumoured that the true cause of Thorbald Ironhide's demise was treachery. Faced with a superior enemy, the Space Wolves called on their allies for help, but a nearby squadron of the Cognisance Fleet withdrew, defiantly broadcasting that "The blood debt to Archmagos Amarnat is not forgotten."
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Entry point 349 of 593
NPCIt is rumoured that the true cause of Thorbald Ironhide's demise was treachery. Faced with a superior enemy, the Space Wolves called on their allies for help, but a nearby squadron of the Cognisance Fleet withdrew, defiantly broadcasting that "The blood debt to Archmagos Amarnat is not forgotten."
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Entry point 350 of 593
NPCThe Order of the One Star joined the rebellion against the Inquisitor turned apostate. It is said that it was the hand of Prelate Argenta that ended the life of a despicable traitor, though she was greatly saddened by the deed.
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Entry point 351 of 593
NPCOnly in the brief moments of Cassia Orsellio's visits did the old Idira resurface from under the impassive mask. Cassia's Navigator's powers enabled her to fill her old friend's mind with emotions, but they always faded soon after the Navigator's departure.
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Entry point 352 of 593
NPCShortly before her death, Idira vanished from her post. Jae disappeared with her. When Jae returned many cycles later, she declared that Idira's last days had been full of joy and adventure, and that her greatest pleasure had been watching the void whales play.
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Entry point 353 of 593
NPCDecades later, Tech-Interrogator Brasswhisper confronted a cartel of Cold Traders who had defiled the Adeptus Mechanicus regalia and executed a powerful criminal named Torra. This act plunged Jae Heydari into grief and rage. In retaliation, she arranged the assassination of Magos Abel Haneumann, a pure-hearted and harmless servant of the Omnissiah.
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Entry point 354 of 593
NPCThe circumstances of Xavier Calcazar's death are not known. It is rumoured that the Lord Inquisitor was slain in a duel by an Angel of the Emperor, who shouted the names of his brothers in the Inquisitor's face and then stamped on his head with a sabaton.
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Entry point 355 of 593
NPCThe foulness that festered in the depths of Kiava Gamma was patient. Its tentacles crept into workshop after workshop, capturing Magos after Magos. The words of binharic mantras were distorted and the algorithmic catechism was compromised. Beneath the shell of iron, a vile worm gnawed at the world's heart.
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Entry point 356 of 593
NPCWhen the Lady Navigator's service came to an end, Cassia left the Rogue Trader and returned to House Orsellio's embrace. It was rumoured that a new Novator would soon take the throne and the House would be reborn after years of silence. Alas, the inauguration did not come to pass, as the discord within the House flared up and turned into a fratricidal war. Lady Cassia died at its outset, taking the lives of many loyalists and renegades with her. The other Navigator Houses made efforts to scatter the remains of the once great House Orsellio and to absorb what little was left of it.
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NPCJanus was among the worlds hit by the savage retribution of the xenos.
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Entry point 359 of 593
NPCBut before the great slaughter could make the planet's irrigation canals run red with blood, the Farseer Muaran emerged from the forests to address the avengers. Having convinced his kin to stay their hand, he and his people departed Janus.
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Entry point 360 of 593
NPCHowever, the participants of the cannibalistic feasting soon came to regret their rapacity. After rallying around Marazhai Aezyrraesh, the surviving warriors of the Reaving Tempest delivered a surprise counter-attack. Many of the plundering Kabals lost so many fighters that they in turn became tempting prey for vultures. By throwing this bloody carrion to the scavengers, the Reaving Tempest seized its chance to survive and return to its former strength.
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Entry point 361 of 593
NPCThe alliance between the von Valancius dynasty and the Kabal of the Black Heart, forged over the cooling corpse of Marazhai Aezyrraesh, was short-lived and the fruits of the union poisoned. By setting nefarious xenos against his/her enemies, the Rogue Trader also left himself/herself vulnerable to daggers in the back. More than once or twice, the Drukhari made attempts to secretly eliminate the Lord Captain and seize control of the dynasty. Abandoning hope of a lasting alliance, the Rogue Trader answered the inhumans' deviousness with his/her own, treacherously slaying many Kabalite warriors and claiming the richest trophies.
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Entry point 362 of 593
NPCIn the same year that Jae Heydari ceased appearing in public, a magnificent and heavily fortified mansion, popularly known as the Tower of Sunset, was built on Dargonus. No one knows to whom the Rogue Trader granted this palace, but His Lordship/Her Ladyship visited the mansion with surprising frequency.
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Entry point 363 of 593
NPCJocasta Sauerback was stunned by her Lord Captain's treason. However, her own oath of loyalty forbade her from turning her weapons against the one she served. Therefore, the Master-at-Arms resigned from her position and summoned two of her trusted, armed bodyguards. The loyal servants carried out Jocasta's last orders and helped her solve her conundrum with no loss of honour.
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Entry point 364 of 593
NPCThe hour of the Rogue Trader's treason found Zacchary Weisz in his chapel. He had been listening to the warp for many days, trying to discern an elusive voice speaking from the Immaterium. He felt an odd certainty that he had to hear and decipher that message. The moment the alarm was raised on the flagship, he heard it at last. It was his own voice shouting about the Lord Captain's betrayal. The Empyrean's insidious currents had seized his yet-to-be-spoken words and carried them into the past. Realising that he was hopelessly late, Weisz shouted into the warp as loudly as he could. He prayed that this time he would succeed in warning his past self.
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Entry point 365 of 593
NPCJocasta Sauerback carried on in her service as Master-at-Arms, maintaining order on the decks with maul and noose. Over the years, she took several husbands, and her descendants came to be named Sauerbacks of the Void: a lesser offshoot of the eminent aristocratic clan from the capital world.
NPCThere were whispers among the crew that one of Mistress Sauerback's children had Werserian blood in him. Something of the noble features particular to that family could be discerned in the young man's genteel face. Whether it was true — whether Jocasta's resolute, uncompromising nature could have, and had, attracted the venerable Seneschal — remained a mystery.
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Entry point 366 of 593
NPCThe nobility of the Expanse appreciated the idyllic conditions of the pearl-like paradise world. White castles rose above the agri-complexes and their mud, and the shining knights of Janus gifted the sector with many a hero who covered themselves in glory.
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Entry point 367 of 593
NPCJocasta Sauerback served as Master-at-Arms for years, but eventually her zeal faded. It appeared that, having tried every form of violence in existence, she no longer derived out of any of them the joy it had once held. Jocasta humbly submitted her resignation and went back to her home on the capital world.
NPCShe took up the position of the warden of one of the capital world's hives, and reconciled with her cousin Macharius, albeit only after a while. The reconciliation was, at any rate, easy to overlook during gatherings of capital-world nobility, where Jocasta and Macharius would waste no opportunity to have a ferocious row.
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NPCSince the Sauerback family had been wiped out as punishment for their treason, Jocasta believed she could not start a family and give life to an heir. She devoted herself to her faith in the God-Emperor, and took a major temple on the capital world under her care. She developed a reputation as a strict but pious matron, and died at an advanced age. No one was around to accept her last words save for the golden image of the God-Emperor installed in her chambers.
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Entry point 368 of 593
NPCJocasta Sauerback served as the Rogue Trader's Master-at-Arms for many years. At the head of a horde of frenzied enforcers, she landed on worlds and boarded stations to replenish the ship's crew with new captives. If any dared resist, she would beat them to death with her merciless maul. Those who submitted to her were never seen again. Each landing and boarding added scars to her stern face, until it disappeared completely behind a riot of old wounds with only a pair of eyes on it, ablaze with hatred. She earned the fearsome sobriquet: the Lady of Scars.
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Entry point 369 of 593
NPCZacchary Weisz, Choirmaster of the Astropaths, turned his shame and repentance into an iron chain binding his soul. Cold and detached, he would never again take a personal apprentice or become close with a subordinate. He dedicated himself to impeccable service, unfailingly carrying out the Lord Captain's orders and surviving at least seven incidents that wiped out the entire Astropathic Choir.
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Entry point 370 of 593
NPCAfter many years, Zacchary Weisz mustered the courage to take personal apprentices again. He searched throughout the Expanse for Astropaths whose masters were harsh and cruel to them, and recruited them into his Choir. He gathered a cast of talented men and women by his side, and was their guardian and mentor. Weisz died defending his wards from cursed words spewed by the Immaterium. Sealing the sound of those words in his mind, he preferred a horrible death to a repetition of his shameful past mistakes.
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Entry point 371 of 593
NPCAs years passed, Zacchary Weisz's obsession and his dark proclivities grew ever more apparent. His Choir was replenished with captive Astropaths from worlds and ships ransacked by the Rogue Trader. A ghostly gathering of souls taken by the warp would surround him as he sat behind an organ of living flesh and played upon it a symphony of despair, the Immaterium his only audience.
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Entry point 372 of 593
NPCA handful of prisoners— all that remained of the Congregation of the Ravenous Star — were left on a minor planet with few supplies. The survivors included only children and old men and women whose appearance had the fewest distortions. Not one of the true monsters had been spared... Or so it seemed. The genetic aberration had all but faded away in the blood of the survivors, only to reveal itself again in their offspring. Soon, purple chitin-covered children were born under the greedy light of alien stars, and went on to carry the truth of the Many-Armed Emperor on the tips of their sting-like tongues.
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Entry point 373 of 593
NPCA loyal servant of the Undying Emperor, Kibellah did not forgive the Rogue Trader for his/her betrayal of Humanity. They met in battle, and Kibellah's steady hand dealt an inescapable mortal blow... Only for her to realise that she had been mistaken. The Undying One was not death itself. [Name] von Valancius was.
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Entry point 374 of 593
NPCHowever, none in the Expanse were the wiser as to the true and greater horror of her fate. Devastated by the treachery of the one she loved, Kibellah's suffering was so ruinous that reality itself gave way under her feet. Ever since then, a rumour spread through the Expanse of a terrifying creature of the warp that took the shape of a maiden in scarlet and manifested itself to diviners and fortune-tellers. It commanded them to tell it the fate of its beloved Domin, and then murdered them in cruel and unholy ways. The dead flesh of its victims bore the carved image of a card from the Emperor's Tarot: the Monster.
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Entry point 375 of 593
NPCVizsier Kibellah of the Bloodspun Web performed a great reading of the Emperor's Tarot, and the card of the Knight showed her cult a new path and a new teaching. Kibellah raised a generation of proud and fervent warriors, and led the scarlet-and-black army out of the shadows, to descend upon a multitude of worlds and hound the faithless in the name of the Undying Emperor. Rivers of spilt unclean blood drenched the soils of worlds where the Bloodspun Web's seeds had sprouted. Planetary rulers outlawed and hunted down the death cultists, to the point of starting full-blown wars, but their armies were hopelessly outmatched by a host led by the Vizsier's will and her powerful foresight guided by the Emperor's Tarot.
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Entry point 376 of 593
NPCVizsier Kibellah of the Bloodspun Web guided her cult along its old paths and remained faithful to tradition. As before, Bloodspun Web cultists led ascetic lives and brought death to those who had been marked by the Undying One. However, nothing is unchanging. A momentous event profoundly impacted the Bloodspun Web: the discovery and miraculous return of a lost relic, a card from the Emperor's Tarot. The Vizsier performed a reading, and the Emperor showed her a new goal: to put the blessed deck back together. Only in its entirety could it reveal the great and dark future that awaited the Koronus Expanse. The Bloodspun Web read the portents, and the holy search commenced.
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Entry point 377 of 593
NPCDargonus continued to grow for two decades until a terrifying rebellion put a decisive end to its prosperity. A genetic abomination known as the Genestealer Cult infiltrated the hives of Dargonus and tried to take over the world. Millions were exterminated in purges and street battles destroyed many hives, setting Dargonus back centuries and depriving it of its chance to become the capital of the Expanse.
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Entry point 378 of 593
NPCVizsier Kibellah of the Bloodspun Web performed a great reading of the Emperor's Tarot, and a card, the Lord of Swords, showed her cult a new path and a new teaching. The spinners vested themselves in gold, painted their faces with blood, came to the upper decks, and took the power and respect they were owed as the Undying One's chosen servants. The spinners surrounded the Domin with a barrier of sharp blades, becoming his/her guard of honour and the ship's new gentry. Proud officers bent their stiff necks before them. Commoners filled their cups with their blood. The Bloodspun Web extended a thread to each of the dynasty's worlds, picking new recruits among those bearing marks of strong and noble blood. The Vizsier's reading portended grim changes, and the Bloodspun Web was making sure it would have the numbers and the weapons to face what was to come.
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Entry point 379 of 593
NPCSecond Spinner Kibellah of the Bloodspun Web served the Vizsier and the Domin loyally — but over the years, alarming changes transformed her further and further. Caught in a tangle of doubts, Kibellah began to neglect the Emperor's Tarot, for its readings were terrifying, contradictory, and enigmatic. The Undying One gave her a different kind of signs through her dreams, and Kibellah killed ever more often, sending souls to the Emperor in their dozens and hundreds. She took a vow of silence and never spoke again. Her armour crusted over with rust and gore. There were whispers of her insanity among the crew, but no one would dare stand up to the sacred bodyguard of the Lord Captain himself/herself.
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Entry point 380 of 593
NPCKibellah's vision of a new path made her give in to the feeling that had sparked between her and the Domin. She shunned her role as bodyguard and companion to become something greater for the Lord Captain. The Bloodspun Web's threads trembled as a new duty descended on it. From then on, a Domin could find among the Undying One's servants, not only a loyal protector, but also a sacred spouse.
NPCDark legends say that the firstborn in whom the Domin and Kibellah's blood commingled was not raised in the Lord Captain's chambers but at the temple of the Undying One, as the child had been promised to the Bloodspun Web in their infancy. They grew up unaware of their noble bloodline, but aware of their duty, for the Undying One is duty itself.
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Entry point 381 of 593
NPCEveryone on the ship knew about the liaison between Kibellah and her Domin, but they also knew it would never turn into anything greater. Reluctantly, Kibellah grew distant from the Lord Captain, content with her role as her beloved's bodyguard and keeping her feelings confined to her own heart. As painful as that decision was, she saw no other path that the Tenets of the Bloodspun Web could lead her down.
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Entry point 382 of 593
NPCThe body of Second Spinner Kibellah disappeared, and none were the wiser as to where — while her soul remained beside the throne of the Undying Emperor. Legends speak of a dark figure that sometimes disembarks from the von Valancius flagship in ports. They say it is a woman who no longer has a soul. They say bloodless corpses are found in the ports' slums sometime after the ship departs... Many untrustworthy legends are told and retold in ports across the Koronus Expanse.
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Entry point 383 of 593
NPCMany marvelled at the tolerance with which Kibellah regarded the Rogue Trader's obvious signs of apostasy. But the day came when the Undying One revealed to Kibellah that it was time for the Domin to depart.
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Entry point 384 of 593
NPCMattis Erebis was a loyal and dutiful servant of the Rogue Trader. Because of his vehement faith in the Undying Emperor, he was permitted to join the Bloodspun Web. A decade and a half later, having risen to the rank of the Web's Fourth Spinner, he died honourably during an assignment, and his soul passed on to the Undying One. The Vizsier composed an enigmatic and profound quatrain in his memory.
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Entry point 385 of 593
NPCMattis Erebis was a loyal and dutiful servant of the Rogue Trader. He went on to become an outstanding bridge officer and a true void wolf. He visited many systems and worlds in the Koronus Expanse, but never set foot on his native Dargonus or saw his family again.
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Entry point 386 of 593
NPCMattis Erebis was a loyal and dutiful servant of the Rogue Trader. His faith in the Undying Emperor entangled him in the Bloodspun Web, but the young man was soon horrified at what the death cult had become under his sister's leadership. Mattis saw the changes she had made as blasphemous against the Emperor, and dared to speak out publicly against her. He met a grim fate. The Vizsier opened his veins with her own hand, tasted his lifeless blood, and made a reading of the Emperor's Tarot with it.
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NPCDargonus grew and prospered until it became the capital of the Koronus Expanse. The planet was like a giant magnet whose pull held together the worlds of the Expanse, absorbing the treasures and vices of the sector.
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Entry point 389 of 593
NPCThe secret of the Genestealer Cult infestation in the Koronus Expanse was laid bare. A wave of purges rolled across many worlds, with enraged rabble and planetary guards massacring thousands of those whose appearance diverged from true human form. Most of them were, of course, ordinary abject genetic misfits and luckless rejects, but their lives were a small price for the sector's purity.
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Entry point 390 of 593
NPCThe fact that the von Valancius flagship had been infected with the Genestealer Cult's corruption was kept secret. The Rogue Trader's prestige and reputation had to be protected from harm, and all that remained was to hope that no new seeds of aberration were sprouting in other dark corners of the Koronus Expanse.
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Entry point 391 of 593
NPCWith a passion that bordered on depravity, Kibellah gave in to the feeling that had sparked between her and the Domin. Years passed, but her attraction to the Lord Captain did not fade — and neither did her beauty, nourished by bathing in the blood of young maidens. The affair was ripe with dark passions and jealousy. Kibellah took many a life out of a suspicion that the person was eclipsing her in the Domin's eyes. However, their love was only strengthened by the blood offerings made to it.
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Entry point 392 of 593
NPCShe came up on the bridge in ceremonial dress, recited a prayer, and tried to execute the Undying One's bidding. The outcome was a foregone conclusion. Kibellah was struck down, and the Lord Captain's throne was encrusted with her still-alive, bleeding body. Using unholy sorcery to hold life within her dying flesh, the Domin prevented the soul of his/her once faithful companion from passing on to the Undying One.
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Entry point 393 of 593
NPCAfter spending the watch in reflection and meditation, Kibellah made up her mind. She came up on the bridge in ceremonial dress and presented the Domin with a steel chest fastened by a chain. The chain was made of broken blades that had belonged to Kibellah, and the chest contained the Emperor's Tarot deck. As part of rejecting the Undying One's will, Kibellah also disowned His relic, and never touched His cards again.
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Entry point 394 of 593
NPCAlthough the Bloodspun Web provided the Inquisition with many deadly agents, the contradictions between the Undying Emperor's whispers and the will of the Lord Inquisitor slowly grew as the years went by. Eventually, the death cult splintered apart, and rivers of blood were spilt. A number of the Undying One's servants renounced their Vizsier and founded a new cult bound by absolute loyalty to the Inquisition, which they named Shadows of the Throne. Contrary to expectations, Vizsier Kibellah was not angered by the schism — instead, she saw the new teaching as another thread of service to the Undying Emperor. Until the end of his days, Lord Inquisitor van Calox wondered just how much sincerity there was in the hearts of the renegades who had agreed to serve under his command.
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Entry point 395 of 593
NPCKiava Gamma washed off the stain of its former defilement and became known as a pious and productive world. Hard work and inquisitive study of the mysteries of Technology glorified the Deus Mechanicus.
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Entry point 396 of 593
NPCAt a time when Idira Tlass was preparing to accept her fate, she found guidance where she least expected it — in the wisdom of the Bloodspun Web. The words of Vizsier Kibellah, who had come to know death better than any mortal soul, helped Idira look to her future not without regret, but without fear. For many years afterward, there was an empty table in the common area of the officers' deck that had an intricate labyrinth carved into the tabletop. None of the crew sat at that table out of respect for the quiet and candid conversations once shared at it by a psyker and a servant of the Undying Emperor.
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Entry point 397 of 593
NPCNovator Cassia and Vizsier Kibellah were brought closer by their common burden of assuming a high position of power at a young age. Though their friendship was short-lived, as it could not overcome the gravity of their duties and the differences between the worlds to which they belonged, they exchanged gifts out of respect for each other and to honour the memories of the journeys they had shared. Cassia used Kibellah's blood to paint an incredible piece which became a relic of the Bloodspun Web. Kibellah, in turn, assigned one of her best spinners to act as Cassia's bodyguard. Many years later, this spinner was rumoured to have ended Cassia's life on the Novator's own orders when her body could no longer resist the strain of mutation.
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Entry point 398 of 593
NPCNot a soul knows how many enemies Marazhai faced in his lifetime, but what is known is the name of his last opponent. Once he had left the Rogue Trader's retinue, there was nothing to stop him from testing the warrior that had long since caught his curiosity — Vizsier Kibellah, the bladedancer. In turn, there was nothing to stop her from executing the Undying Emperor's will by exterminating the xenos. Both spent years preparing for this fight, studying each other from the shadows. Their dance took place on a remote world, and bountiful was the offering of blood it left upon the surface. The victor of that battle never appeared in the Koronus Expanse again, and thus the outcome remains unknown.
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Entry point 399 of 593
NPCWith her newly acquired power and resources, Jae Heydari expended a great deal of effort to put an end to the Cult of the Bloodspun Web. The ease with which she sent assassins after the spinners and spread damning propaganda betrayed her strong vested interest. Many thought her actions reckless and expected a retaliatory strike to be delivered before long, but... it never came. With the cards of the Emperor's Tarot spread before her in the darkness, Vizsier Kibellah performed one reading after another, but, as much as it troubled her, she could find no command to end the life of her brazen adversary. Thus, the blade remained sheathed.
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Entry point 400 of 593
NPCFor a time, Commorragh's streets were abuzz with tales of a mon-keigh accompanied by a leashed beast who exacted his perverse justice, but these rumours soon died down. However, around that time, a new gladiator entered the arena — a muscular Wrack with a dog's head sewn onto its body. It died while trying to climb the Archon's stand during a show.
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Entry point 401 of 593
NPCSolomorne remained on Vheabos VI, struggling long and hard to wrestle back control over himself from his own tumultuous rage. It was not to last, however. One day, Marshal Strachs came to impound a valuable Arbites asset — the cyber-mastiff — only to be attacked by Solomorne. At the Marshal's command, Glaito tore his master to pieces.
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Entry point 402 of 593
NPCVoidfarers shared grim tales about the von Valancius flagship. Monsters dwelt in the bowels of the vessel, they whispered, and from time to time, the servants of those monsters descended to worlds and stations to spread corruption. These rumours were suppressed as criminal slander... but that made them no less true. Many generations later, a great rebellion of genetic abomination shook the Expanse. Mutants born of the profane xenodisease revolted at the call of their fearsome four-armed Angel. Dargonus, the glorious capital of the von Valancius dynasty, was lost. Cleansed of genetic abomination once before, it was now tainted by it again — this time forever. After becoming a breeding ground for mutants, Dargonus proclaimed its faith in the Many-Armed Emperor. On a high throne in the Rogue Trader's palace, a scaled saint from the distant stars slumbered. In his dreams, he spoke to his progenitor and sensed that he was approaching.
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Entry point 403 of 593
NPCWitnessing the Rogue Trader's treachery did not surprise Proctor Solomorne Anthar, who always assumed the worst and trusted no one save for his cyber-mastiff. The Arbitrator felt a grim satisfaction as his final moments brought him proof of the correctness of his chosen path. After shooting Glaito, preferring to end his companion's life himself over leaving him to die painfully or suffer an even worse fate, Solomorne faced his former comrade in arms, and died before he could land a single blow.
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Entry point 404 of 593
NPCAfter being demoted to the status of a patrolman, Solomorne Anthar took up duty on the lower levels of Dargonus. The shabby precinct the former Arbitrator was assigned to soon rivalled the von Valancius palace in safety, drawing the envy of the enforcers and ultimately signing his death warrant. One fateful day, finding himself cornered by a gang of criminals, Solomorne requested backup, but no one came to his aid.
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Entry point 405 of 593
NPCAll traces of the former Arbitrator have been lost in the darkness of history. Following his summary expulsion, he never set foot on a von Valancius world again, nor did he seek out a patron in other systems. A century later, a void wanderer was heard speaking of an uncharted world on the outskirts of the Expanse, where one could find an unmarked grave alongside the metal frame of a cybernetic animal, which stood over it like a headstone.
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Entry point 406 of 593
NPCKiava Gamma washed off the stain of its former defilement, but not the dark memory of it. The sacred halls were never silent, and production rates became the supreme law. The glory of the Imperium was forged in the blood and sweat of its toilers, and the millstones of the manufactorums ground the workers down by the thousand. Even in death, the souls of its servants dared not step away from their machines.
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Entry point 407 of 593
NPCYears later, Solomorne Anthar became Marshal and quickly tightened the requirements for all Arbitrators. They were now expected to be beyond any reproach whatsoever in both thought or deed, as well as ascetic to a religious degree. Under their great Marshal's leadership, the Arbites became the true bearers of the Emperor's divine light; however, the lack of new recruits from across the Maw would also doom them to extinction. After Solomorne's death, the Arbitrators continued to do their duty honourably, until they, too, passed away one by one, leaving the Koronus Expanse without their ever-vigilant oversight.
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Entry point 408 of 593
NPCAfter becoming Marshal several years later, Solomorne Anthar began to reform the laws of the Expanse, seeking to imbue them with a spirit of justice. His approach led to a severalfold increase in workload for the Adeptus Arbites; Solomorne's solution to this was to assemble a so-called "Lex Imperialis militia," which recruited only the most honourable subjects of the Imperium. This in turn resulted in a conflict between the original Arbites and Marshal Anthar, which escalated into a war that went on for decades and claimed hundreds of lives.
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Entry point 409 of 593
NPCWhen his time came to take the reins of the Adeptus Arbites, Marshal Anthar began his watch by immediately executing any who would not obey him without question. His next step was to formulate a new Lex Koronus, written in the blood of criminals. The sacred tome was put on display at what was now called the Palace of Punishment. Marshal Anthar sent death squads after any who did not uphold the latest version of the Lex Koronus. These merciless raids came to epitomise the oppressive terror of the new and monstrous face of the law in the Expanse.
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Entry point 410 of 593
NPCFollowing the transition of power at the Adeptus Arbites, Solomorne rejoined its ranks, where he remained in service for the rest of his life. Implacable and incorruptible, Solomorne was thrice offered the position of an Arbites Marshal, which he refused every time. Toward the end of his life, Anthar, though still a humble Proctor, wielded an authority surpassing that of all his superior officers. This was likely the reason for the final — and the only successful — attempt on his life.
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Entry point 411 of 593
NPCSolomorne Anthar remained in the ranks of the Adeptus Arbites, straying ever more from the letter of the law in favour of its spirit. On one occasion, several years later, he refused to collect tithe from one of the fringe worlds, as this would have condemned its people to death by starvation. Aware of the Proctor's long-standing ties with the Rogue Trader, the Marshal decided not to take the risk of having the freethinker executed. Instead, he sent Solomorne on an impossible mission, thereby spelling his death sentence.
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Entry point 412 of 593
NPCAfter joining the ranks of the reformed Adeptus Arbites, Solomorne rallied some of the Arbitrators around him. Together, they terrorised entire worlds and disembowelled planetary governors' families as a lesson to any who breached the law by even one iota. The new Marshal tried to put an end to the rampant heresy, but the brief fight that ensued resulted in the Marshal being overpowered and given to Glaito to be eaten alive. By the time the Arbites elected their new leader, their organisation was all but a shadow of its former self. Meanwhile, Solomorne had become captain of a ship, the Blood Tribute. The vessel would continue to dole out his perverse justice for decades, until it finally perished in a particularly horrific warp storm, much to the relief of the Expanse's inhabitants.
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Entry point 413 of 593
NPCAfter exterminating the last of the Arbites in the Expanse, Solomorne Anthar realised he was now the sector's sole wielder of the Lex Imperialis. He placed upon himself a great mission to wipe out crime, and spent years cleansing the Expanse of lawlessness as he hunted down Shadow Barons and pirate captains. Impeccably loyal to the Emperor and His Law, the former Proctor came to symbolise the implacability of justice to all inhabitants of the Expanse.
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Entry point 414 of 593
NPCSolomorne Anthar did not stay idle for long, as his sense of justice would not allow him to sit back and merely observe the growing lawlessness around him. He and Glaito disappeared for many years, after which a rumour began to spread throughout the Expanse of an Invisible Judge who came for the most ruthless of criminals and struck them down. There was no hiding from him on void stations or in the depths of hive worlds. Dozens of bounties were put on the Invisible Judge, only for him to escape every manhunt unscathed. It was said the faceless avenger was able to show up in different corners of the sector at the same time, and even to change his appearance. Whether these apparitions were the Invisible Judge's successors, his imitators, or sorcerous illusions remains unknown.
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Entry point 415 of 593
NPCHaving dealt with the Adeptus Arbites, Solomorne Anthar became the Rogue Trader's personal investigator. Whenever [Name] von Valancius wanted to track someone down, he/she would send Solomorne and his faithful dog. There was no hiding from them, and Glaito's jaws were relentless in tearing apart the dynasty's enemies. When the cyber-mastiff's body became possessed by a daemon lured there by his master's devastating fury, Anthar merely smiled a wry smile, pleased that his beast was now even more deadly and invincible than before.
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Entry point 416 of 593
NPCThe romantic bond between Solomorne Anthar and Lord/Lady von Valancius withstood every test, but it was not to last. Though death had claimed the Arbitrator, his love for the Rogue Trader immortalised him, as many among the Expanse's nobility followed Proctor Anthar's example in choosing an influential person as the object of their adoration and swearing romantic fidelity to them alongside their vows of service. The expression "to love each other like [Name] and Solomorne" was soon taken up to describe any relationship where love surpassed duty and could not be broken even by the scheming of powerful suzerains and commanders.
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Entry point 417 of 593
NPCThe Imperial Navy was wary of the rise of the von Valancius. They saw themselves as dogs guarding the flock of the Emperor's subjects, and there was a new master of the pack. Therefore, the dynasty was watched with utmost diligence, and the admirals feared that one day they would have to go to war against the Rogue Trader.
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Entry point 418 of 593
NPCKiava Gamma grew and new manufactorums were founded, until disturbing reports started to trickle in many years later. It seemed that someone had secretly taken control of the colony, shrouding it in a tangle of conspiracy. Neither enquiries nor threats to Tech-Priests or executions helped. Someone in the shadows was weaving their web and making secret plans.
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Entry point 419 of 593
NPCAfter accepting the Rogue Trader's proposal and becoming his/her worthy consort, Solomorne never let anyone stand between him and his love again. Once, Solomorne went on a pirate hunt and came back accompanied by three orphans of a delicate age — captives whom he had rescued. He and the Rogue Trader developed an affection for the youngsters, and took it upon themselves to raise them. Under their wise and devoted care, the three children grew up to become adults of great talent, whose deeds astounded the Koronus Expanse on many occasions. And although the love between the Arbitrator and the Lord Captain was no longer theirs alone, they never felt a lack of it.
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Entry point 420 of 593
NPCOn Epitaph, Solomorne witnessed his beloved betray Humanity, and for the first time ever, the Arbitrator's face was wet with tears. The unimaginable grief burst the devastated Proctor's heart before an even more terrible fate could befall him.
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Entry point 421 of 593
NPCAbelard Werserian and Solomorne Anthar spent most of their infrequent meetings playing regicide, to which the Seneschal had introduced the Proctor. Meticulously recorded by Abelard's adjutant, their games soon found their way into collections of the best ones ever played in the Expanse, and were later referenced by many a noble regicide aficionado. When First Officer Werserian passed away before he could finish the last match in a long series of draws, Solomorne attended his funeral in full dress and regalia, and placed a regicide piece on his grave.
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Entry point 422 of 593
NPCThe antagonism between the Baroness of Shadows and the Marshal of the Expanse became the stuff of legends. Thousands of people found themselves entangled in their respective leader's battle of wits. Where some hid, others searched for them; where some ran, others pursued them. It is known for a fact that there were two things the adversaries never did even once: meet in person or threaten one another's nearest and dearest.
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Entry point 423 of 593
NPCThe struggle between the Baroness of Shadows and the Marshal of the Expanse became the largest-ever conflict between the underworld and the law. One after another, the bandits' lairs fell to the Marshal's forces, until one day, an explosion destroyed the Palace of Justice, along with most of the Arbites. In the full-scale war that ensued, Arbitrators exterminated entire families of the Baroness's people, paying no mind to collateral damage. After years of being dragged into the internecine carnage, the sector's inhabitants found themselves cursing both sides alike.
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Entry point 424 of 593
NPCDuty demanded that Magos Haneumann and Marshal Anthar part ways. During their last meeting, Pasqal made a few final modifications to Glaito's design, increasing the cyber-mastiff's service life severalfold. Whether the gift had any impact on Solomorne is uncertain, but on more than one occasion, having his faithful dog at his side would turn out to be his salvation in even the darkest of days.
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Entry point 425 of 593
NPCThe protracted search for a Marshal had so weakened the Adeptus Arbites that their new leader had to spend the rest of their life restoring order within the organisation. While the Arbites were busy dealing with their internal problems, lawlessness and disobedience flourished throughout the Expanse.
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Entry point 426 of 593
NPCAfter the trial of Prefect Vultur and Marshal Strachs, the Rogue Trader ordered the Arbites to find a new commander and forget about House von Valancius. The Marshal appointed years later was so frightened by the fate of their predecessor that they never dared say a word against the dynasty's decisions. Once every criminal's worst nightmare, the Arbites of the Expanse gradually declined into just another law-enforcement clan, indistinguishable from the many thousands like it.
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Entry point 427 of 593
NPCAfter the Adeptus Arbites were outlawed throughout the Expanse, a few of their members surrendered to the Rogue Trader, while many others went into hiding. The remainder either died in shows of resistance or made attempts to band together, eventually coalescing into the pirate gang known as the Lex Voidis. Under the pretext of restoring the rule of law, they unleashed horror and destruction on countless von Valancius worlds.
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Entry point 428 of 593
NPCSolomorne Anthar, House von Valancius's faithful watchdog, tracked down the Lex Voidis flagship and carried out the last sentence on the Adeptus Arbites in the Koronus Expanse.
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Entry point 429 of 593
NPCIn the end, the Cult of the Fatal Thirst did not recover from the daemons' bloodbath in the arena. After losing all of its Succubi, it became an easy target, and soon the entire arena, along with its spectators, died in a sudden and surprisingly rapid dimensional collapse, sending the screaming xenos souls right into the maw of She Who Thirsts.
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Entry point 430 of 593
NPCDuring the purges within the ranks of the Arbites, no one who fell even slightly short of the strict stipulations of the Lex Imperialis was spared. Those that remained, the best of the best, could no longer perform the entire spectrum of Arbites duties, being unable to arrive in time wherever their vigilance was required. Not one of the thousands of candidates seeking to replenish the ranks of the new and flawless servants of the Lex Imperialis managed to pass the entrance trials. Eventually, the Arbites Koronus, as it came to be called, became a closed order of lawmen that administered their own brand of justice. The order's history ended with the death of its last member.
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Entry point 431 of 593
NPCThe former prefect was sentenced to tithe accounting duty for the rest of her life. For several years, she inhabited a tiny room stacked with papers, until one day, she felt the life going out of her withered body. She assembled her few subordinates and meticulously handed over her various responsibilities. Her final words were: "This completes the reading of the list. Rank two clerk Inscribia Vultur is hereby stepping down for death-related reasons."
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Entry point 432 of 593
NPCHigh Overseer Gregoras Strachs of Vheabos VI rendered his duties with a zeal unfathomable to the common mind. Under his leadership, the penal world became a paragon of order and a place of incarceration that criminals feared more than death. Strachs spent his final years in a small, damp room disturbingly reminiscent of a jail cell. He declined every award and honour for his assiduous service, and preferred solitude to any kind of company.
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Entry point 433 of 593
NPCThe only exception was Solomorne Anthar, who visited his former superior whenever he had the chance. The contents of their long conversations are unknown, but their outcome was the same every time: a gloomy and unmistakable mark of regret on each of the two dour men's faces.
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Entry point 434 of 593
NPCMaive's rule as governor of Thassera was as short as it was memorable. Incapable of turning down any common folk suffering under the nobility's oppression, she focused her every effort on helping those in need, thus incurring the aristocracy's wrath. False accusations of sorcery were concocted against the governor, and, being uninitiated in the art of plotting and scheming, Maive walked right into the trap. The Phesmophorius took the young woman in its embrace, and all that remained of her memory was a handful of mournful songs, hummed in secret by a few grateful commoners.
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Entry point 435 of 593
NPCThe Rogue Trader's servo-skull-penned autobiography became a landmark of literature in the Expanse. In an ironic twist, the numerous manual copies made during the memoir's distribution littered it with so many distortions and reinterpretations that, centuries later, no widely available version of the text contained even a single word of truth. The original publication has become an object of speculative trade among enterprising collectors, and secret underground auctions are sometimes held, in which noble buyers are prepared to part with entire worlds and voidships just for the chance to possess a manuscript of such incredible value.
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Entry point 436 of 593
NPCThe Rogue Trader's servo-skull-penned autobiography became a landmark of literature in the Expanse. In an ironic twist, the numerous manual copies made during the memoir's distribution littered it with so many distortions and reinterpretations that, centuries later, no widely available version of the text contained even a single word of truth. The original publication has become an object of speculative trade among enterprising collectors, and secret underground auctions are sometimes held, in which noble buyers are prepared to part with entire worlds and voidships just for the chance to possess a manuscript of such incredible value.
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Entry point 437 of 593
NPCThe Rogue Trader's servo-skull-penned autobiography became a landmark of literature in the Expanse. In an ironic twist, the numerous manual copies made during the memoir's distribution littered it with so many distortions and reinterpretations that, centuries later, no widely available version of the text contained even a single word of truth. The original publication has become an object of speculative trade among enterprising collectors, and secret underground auctions are sometimes held, in which noble buyers are prepared to part with entire worlds and voidships just for the chance to possess a manuscript of such incredible value.
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Entry point 438 of 593
NPCThe Rogue Trader's servo-skull-penned autobiography became a landmark of literature in the Expanse. In an ironic twist, the numerous manual copies made during the memoir's distribution littered it with so many distortions and reinterpretations that, centuries later, no widely available version of the text contained even a single word of truth. The original publication has become an object of speculative trade among enterprising collectors, and secret underground auctions are sometimes held, in which noble buyers are prepared to part with entire worlds and voidships just for the chance to possess a manuscript of such incredible value.
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Entry point 439 of 593
NPCThe Rogue Trader asserted his/her right to the Leethus tithe. All of it, down to the last crumb, was spent in the name of the Imperium. Cathedrals were erected; fortresses were built to defend against Humanity's enemies; entire new armies were recruited and equipped. However, other dynasties soon branded House von Valancius as a tithe usurper, thenceforth refusing to pay the sacred tribute, and the already shaky peace between the Rogue Traders was damaged beyond all repair.
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Entry point 440 of 593
NPCJanus was conquered, the xenos spirits were exorcised, and the wilderness was subdued. The fields grew until they covered the entire planet, and billions of tons of provisions were harvested there. Janus had become the breadbasket of the Expanse, and to threaten it would be to condemn millions to starvation.
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Entry point 441 of 593
NPCThe tithe taken from Leethus was a lifeline for many dying worlds in the Expanse. The Rogue Trader spared no expense in helping not only his/her own protectorate, but the neighbouring stars as well. Not everyone was understanding of such charity, but the role of House von Valancius in saving entire systems was beyond any doubt. After a time, some worlds began objecting to the volume of aid they were receiving, while others altogether balked at paying their tithe. In the end, all too many of them came to waste their precious gift of life on bloody revolts and senseless infighting.
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Entry point 442 of 593
NPCThe unimaginable wealth that was the Koronus Expanse's tithe became the foundation of the Rogue Trader's absolute power. Mercenary armies were prepared to kiss the feet of the owner of such immense treasure. Architects erected palaces in his/her honour. Traders preferred Dargonus as the place to sell their most valuable artefacts. Sinister opulence flowed into the residences of him/her whose greed the dark gods smiled upon. The feasts and the sacrifices never ceased for a moment. Trade elsewhere was gutted, and other dynasties had no choice but to either bend the knee or decline and disappear, for the Expanse now belonged to one person alone.
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Entry point 443 of 593
NPCFollowing Leethus's destruction, its tithe ended up in the tenacious grip of the Administratum. The clerks stashed the wealth of the Koronus Expanse away in warehouses. A few years later, a decision was made to transport the tribute across the Maw, where the barges carrying the immense wealth were lost without a trace.
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Entry point 444 of 593
NPCFollowing the destruction of Leethus, Rogue Trader von Valancius directed part of its tithe toward restoring Koronus Expanse worlds that had suffered from xenos, heretics, and the horrors of the void. Many of them only survived thanks to that aid, although the broad gesture was met with scant understanding by aristocrats. Some years later, the worlds to which the tithe had been distributed were struck by a ghastly disease that came to be known as the Leethus Curse. Whether it truly was related to the tithe or a mere attempt to slander the Expanse's protector forever remained a mystery.
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Entry point 445 of 593
NPC[Name] von Valancius took a percentage of the tithe as payment for his/her help to the Arbites. The resources were used to construct a void station, the Gem of the Dynasty, a true ornament of the Koronus Expanse. The monumental structure remained standing for centuries after its creator's death.
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Entry point 446 of 593
NPCAs the sole owner of the Leethus tithe, the Rogue Trader was able to turn his/her greatest ambitions into reality; however, the colossal wealth soon became a curse for the von Valancius dynasty. Frauds and tricksters of all kinds swarmed Dargonus, seeking to use their cunning to obtain even a small fraction of its fabulous wealth; pirates assembled flotillas, hoping to sack the dynasty's treasury; and even formerly loyal comrades and subjects soon leapt on every opportunity for embezzlement. Much like the rusty winds of Leethus had done before them, corruption and scheming soon began gnawing away at the appropriated tithe.
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Entry point 447 of 593
NPCMaive settled into life aboard the flagship surprisingly quickly, and her kindness and gentle nature touched the hearts of the crew. One dashing officer made his romantic interest known, but Maive spurned his advances, hiding behind high collars and shawls the disfiguring marks of the dark ritual that had taken place on Thassera. When Maive's suitor at last secured her consent to marry, little did he know that he was walking into a blood-soaked nightmare: just before the ceremony, his bride-to-be transformed into a Chaos spawn. To the cries of horror and despair, the creature gorged itself on shattered hopes until it was slain by the arriving enforcers. It is said that, as the creature lay bleeding, it tried to sing a surprisingly tender tune and called out to someone named Daen.
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Entry point 448 of 593
NPCAfter the Rogue Trader left the Necron systems, the path to them was closed. The gates leading to the Tomb Worlds remained under the control of the Lord Captain, and there was no telling if he/she was protecting Humanity from the dangers lurking beyond them, or if he/she had simply made himself/herself the sole proprietor of the terrifying technologies and secrets of the xenos.
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Entry point 449 of 593
NPCAs they were leaving the Necron systems, Nomos destroyed every Tomb World of the ancient xenos. Some eternal strife had awakened within the young deity, demanding that the planets of the undead be obliterated.
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Entry point 450 of 593
NPCBefore leaving the Necron systems, Lord Inquisitor Calcazar ordered the conquered deity to destroy every Tomb World. Thus perished another threat to Humanity in the sector, along with the hidden clues it held about the nature of the monster brought into the Imperium's service.
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Entry point 451 of 593
NPCVistenza Vyatt's reign was long and bloody. The Prince of Pleasure bestowed the secrets of metamorphoses upon her, and Janus's nature was transformed. An endless string of serfs was sent into her palace, their blood, flesh, and souls consumed in experimentation or endless revelry. Over the years, Vistenza's body became covered in scales, becoming long and sinuous. She no longer left her lair, which was filled with specimens of delicious degradation and corrupted wisdom.
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Entry point 452 of 593
NPCAfter failing to reintegrate into the Imperium that had forgotten it, Zarkov slowly faded away, mired in its own barbaric traditions. After years of unremarkable service and a policy of isolation, the lost regiment was forgotten once more — this time, for good.
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Entry point 453 of 593
NPCThe 1st Zarkov Regiment became renowned throughout the Expanse as an elite force, forged in harsh conditions, loyal, and fearless in the face of death. When the ancient xenos, the Necrons, began to awaken in their tombs, the regiment, which had faced this foe once before, played a decisive role in the defence of the Expanse. Proudly raising their banner and singing the Hymn of the Lost, tens of thousands of soldiers marched into an unequal battle to find atonement.
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Entry point 454 of 593
NPCZarkov's elite Giftbearers were renowned for their incredible resilience and terrifying fanaticism. The dynasty's augmented warriors were known as fearless killing machines, increasing the might of any battalion to which they were assigned. They were said never to retreat in battle, knowing that even in death they would find atonement, and that their implants would then pass to the next brave Zarkovian and give rise to a new Giftbearer.
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Entry point 455 of 593
NPCThe Zarkovians, who had become the Rogue Trader's personal guard, terrorised all who dared challenge his/her authority. They were peerless in covert operations, which often concluded without a single shot fired — entire enemy camps were found slaughtered by their own comrades, driven mad by the Zarkovians' secret weapon: sonic signals from the Drovers' extracted vocal organs. A saying emerged in the Expanse, namely that anyone who went missing had been "carried off by the shadows of Zarkov."
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Entry point 456 of 593
NPCStaying on Zarkov to oversee the planet, Governor Izdrig Batoshski pursued a policy of maximum independence from other worlds and remained loyal to only the God-Emperor and the Lord Captain. The soldiers born and raised on Zarkov were renowned as the most dangerous fighters in the Koronus Expanse.
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Entry point 457 of 593
NPCGovernor Izdrig Batoshski, upon learning of the path chosen by the von Valancius scion, launched one of the bloodiest planetary revolts in the history of the Koronus Expanse. Under siege, he left the Cage and retreated into the forests, where the remnants of Zarkov's army waged guerrilla warfare for nine months. In the ninth month, Izdrig was killed by his own desperate soldiers, who gifted the former governor's head to the dark lord/lady von Valancius in exchange for his/her favour.
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Entry point 458 of 593
NPCGenetor Ferrenz dedicated his life to researching implants capable of replicating the precision of a chirurgeon's hand movements. Vivisector Martinax assisted him in his research and dictated to the assigned servo-skull one of the most comprehensive treatises on the nature of augmentation in the Koronus Expanse.
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Entry point 459 of 593
NPCGenetor Ferrenz devoted years to creating and perfecting augments capable of replacing Vivisector Martinax's missing arms. By the time the Genetor's efforts bore fruit, the Vivisector had already lost his former dexterity and sharpness of mind, and was consequently deemed unworthy of receiving the augmentations by Ferrenz. The bionic arms outlived the man for whom they had been created, and they were preserved in the Sector Bionica's reliquary, never to be worn.
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Entry point 460 of 593
NPCGenetor Ferrenz, left in charge of the Sector Bionica, dedicated his life to finding and creating the perfect implants. When he failed to find satisfaction in the capabilities of the Imperium's technology, he descended into tech-heresy, creating ever more monstrous devices. This led to a schism in the Sector Bionica, culminating in a bloody massacre in which Vivisector Martinax sacrificed himself to kill his deranged colleague: after pushing him onto the operating table of the implantation throne, Jaze Martinax activated the vivisection protocols and held Ferrenz down with the weight of his own body until the manipulators tore them both to pieces.
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Entry point 461 of 593
NPCVivisector Martinax, left in charge of the Sector Bionica's chirurgeons, served on the flagship until the end of his days. When age and fatigue took his strength and talent, the Vivisector's remains were used in the creation of a medicae servo-skull by Genetor Ferrenz. This great honour allowed him to continue toiling for the benefit of the Rogue Trader.
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Entry point 462 of 593
NPCMuaran's secret rule bore poisonous fruit. Repeated rebellions broke out in the agri-complexes as the serfs felt they were being manipulated by a force hostile to Humanity. Devoid of sympathy for humans, the Aeldari developed a plan to control and eliminate the unruly, terrorising them in the night. Janus bent under the yoke of inhuman occupation.
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Entry point 463 of 593
NPCVivisector Martinax, left in charge of the Sector Bionica's chirurgeons, served on the flagship until the end of his days. When age and fatigue took his strength and talent, the Vivisector's remains were used in the creation of a medicae servo-skull by Genetor Ferrenz. This great honour allowed him to continue toiling for the benefit of the Rogue Trader.
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Entry point 464 of 593
NPCVivisector Martinax, left in charge of the Sector Bionica's chirurgeons, soon discovered that the bay's junior medicae officers had succumbed to the heresy of xenotech. The Vivisector's authority was ended by means of a quiet and swift poisoning, rumoured to have been perpetrated by his partner, Genetor Ferrenz.
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Entry point 465 of 593
NPCEogunn fell at the hand of his former comrade, along with many of the Adeptus Mechanicus in the Expanse. All his accumulated knowledge of xenotechnology was nothing against the monstrous power unleashed upon him by the one who had formerly borne the name [Name] von Valancius.
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Entry point 466 of 593
NPCAfter Genetor Februs left the Rogue Trader's retinue, his trail went cold among the endless worlds of the Koronus Expanse. On rare occasions, rumours would surface of kidnapped people and strange madmen of flesh and iron, who raved in terror about a maniac who trailed death itself at his shoulder.
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Entry point 467 of 593
NPCThe grief and madness that engulfed the soul of Manipulus Eogunn Februs finally shattered his sanity. After performing the unnatural act of triasomia on the body of his dearest colleague, the Genetor descended into an abyss of heresy, embarking on a series of repulsive experiments conceived by his fevered mind. Straying further and further past all acceptable limits, Eogunn lost his human form and became one of the most malevolent hereteks the Expanse had ever known. His body now fully transformed into a foul construct of flesh, metal, and sinister heretical technology, the creature that had once been Manipulus Februs was captured by Trazyn the Infinite and added to the ranks of the exhibits in his Museion.
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Entry point 468 of 593
NPCThe Dark Gods' chosen was only too glad to bestow his/her patronage upon so powerful a heretek, placing at his disposal all the secret knowledge that had been shared with him/her by the Four. Kiava Gamma, formerly a stronghold for the servants of the Machine God, became a bastion of mechanistic horrors that was completely loyal to the fallen Manipulus. In its tunnels and secret workshops, nefarious machines multiplied, bringing death to the enemies of the von Valancius dynasty.
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Entry point 469 of 593
NPCAfter finding serenity and making peace with the death of his closest companion, Eogunn Februs left the Rogue Trader's retinue to set out on a long journey. He gathered like-minded individuals around him, people who were willing to grant a merciful death to unfortunates who would otherwise be doomed to drawn-out, pointless suffering. The group of philosophers quickly turned into a community, and the community into a sect. Many seeking deliverance managed to obtain it before the Ecclesiarchy declared the sect heretical and subjected it to severe persecution.
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Entry point 470 of 593
NPCBefore embarking on his sombre voyage, Eogunn remained by his patron's side for a long time, sharing with him/her all the invaluable nuggets of knowledge he had accumulated over the years among the xenarites. It was the least he could do for the newly minted ruler, in return for the invaluable compassion and understanding the Rogue Trader had granted him.
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Entry point 471 of 593
NPCGenetor Februs dedicated the rest of his life to atoning for his gravest act of wickedness. Absorbed in his righteous toil, Eogunn used the knowledge and experience he had accumulated to extend the days of the worthiest of the Imperium's servants so that they might continue to perform deeds fruitful and blessed for the glory of Humanity. Those martyrs were denied death, and their lives were prolonged in terrible suffering and eternal service against their wishes and expectations. The servo-skull, which Eogunn had created as a reminder of his unfulfilled debt to his closest friend and colleague, accompanied him until the final seconds of his mortal journey.
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Entry point 472 of 593
NPCEogunn's deep knowledge and brilliant mind were put to good use by the Koronus Conclave. All his knowledge of xenos, accumulated over many years in the ranks of the xenarites, was now turned against the enemies of Humanity. The punitive operations conducted under the aegis of the Ordo Xenos gave the Imperium one outstanding victory after another.
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Entry point 473 of 593
NPCFive years after the Epitaph campaign, Vheabos VI died out as a result of an unknown scourge that came from beneath the ground. Convicts and overseers were poisoned, mangled, or just disappeared. However, the slave barracks were quickly repopulated, for there was no shortage of outcasts and criminals in the Expanse.
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Entry point 474 of 593
NPCInquisitor van Calox became the personal nemesis of the disgraced Genetor, relentlessly pursuing him for several decades. The xenarite movement was declared heretical throughout the entire Expanse, and the Inquisition spared neither servants nor promethium in its efforts to eradicate it. When the punitive squad led by the Inquisitor himself finally penetrated the planet where the former Manipulus had been conducting his unholy research, all they found was a vast, perfectly round crater on the site of his laboratory. Eogunn himself and all the foul mechanisms he had produced had vanished without a trace.
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Entry point 475 of 593
NPCThe pernicious ideas spawned by Manipulus Februs took deep root among the Explorator Fleet, sprouting countless disputes and strife within the ranks of the Omnissiah's servants. More and more members of the Adeptus Mechanicus were seduced by the xenarites' philosophy, redirecting their limitless passion for knowledge into the study of xenotechnology.
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Entry point 476 of 593
NPCThere is no greater transgression before the Undying One than to attempt to challenge his decisions. Rumours of the deeds of the wandering philosopher Eogunn and his followers spread throughout the Expanse, and the verdict of the Bloodspun Web was adamant and unquestionable. Kibellah personally made the Undying One's will a reality, and it is said that Manipulus Februs only smiled bitterly when the spinner's blade severed his head from his body.
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Entry point 479 of 593
NPCVedka Dunawski ruled Zarkov as governor into old age and founded a new aristocratic dynasty. Her apparent naivety did not prevent the Merov Regiment woman from holding the newly ascended nobles in an iron grip, while her ability to bring people together secured many valuable alliances for the von Valancius dynasty.
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Entry point 480 of 593
NPCGovernor Vedka Dunawski found herself unable to accept the betrayal of her Lord Captain. For seven long years, she successfully defended Zarkov against the forces of Chaos, but with each battle she lost more and more faith. At the end of the seventh year, Vedka disappeared from her office without a trace — mere days before the Zarkov army was struck by a deadly disease that had never been seen before. It is said that shortly afterward, a horrifying priestess of the dark powers appeared on Zarkov — the one-eyed, ulcer-riddled Hope Breaker, who turned the souls of the righteous away from the God-Emperor with her words of salvation in despair.
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Entry point 482 of 593
NPCThe attack dogs of the champion of Chaos, the 32nd Merov Regiment was written into the annals of the Koronus Expanse with a red-hot stylus. Brutal and merciless killers who drenched entire planets in blood, they struck terror in all who dared oppose their commander-in-chief.
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NPCSomewhere on the underside of reality lay Commorragh, woven from manifold other dimensions and illuminated as always with the light of stolen suns, its streets ever filled with screams and agony. Any misfortune experienced by the Dark City became another scar on its appalling face, lost among thousands of other vile blemishes. As long as pain pulsed in its blood-soaked spires, the insatiable and unshakeable Commorragh continued its flight through the Webway, along with its unchanging ruler, the leader of the Kabal of the Black Heart and the most dangerous of all Drukhari — Asdrubael Vect.
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Entry point 487 of 593
NPCPlatform Tirkuaz-4 sank to the ocean floor, taking with it resource extraction technologies unknown to Humanity. The promethium crisis severely affected Altar-Templum-Calixis-Ext-17, interrupting sacred meditation and the lives of more than a third of the Tech-Priests on the station.
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Entry point 488 of 593
NPCPlatform Tirkuaz-4, left afloat by the Rogue Trader, supplied Altar-Templum-Calixis-Ext-17 with resources for many cycles, turning the planet into a full-fledged mining world under the leadership of now elevated Artisan Decabalus. The loss of the station was all the more grievous when the xenarite sect that had seized control of Tirkuaz revolted and cut off supplies.
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Entry point 489 of 593
NPCThe mysterious xeno-artefact called the anchor-core multiplied the treasures of the von Valancius protectorate many times over, but a hundred years later it was stolen by a nameless thief who vanished without a trace.
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Entry point 490 of 593
NPCThe mysterious xeno-artefact called the anchor-core was found destroyed in the forges of Altar-Templum. Only hundreds of years later was it discovered in the remains of the tech-temple as silent proof that a xenoheretical schism had taken root in the minds of the station's inhabitants.
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Entry point 491 of 593
NPCArch-Militant Vedka Dunawski was one of the last of the flagship's crew to die, fighting steadfastly and desperately, like a true daughter of Zarkov. The last thing the warrior saw before death was the distant stars that beckoned to her, and the person she considered the saviour of her homeworld.
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Entry point 492 of 593
NPCArch-Militant Batoshski was one of the last of the flagship's crew to die. He fought against the inevitable with staunch ferocity, and before his death, he said through gritted teeth, "I knew all those stories about the stars were Commissar words."
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Entry point 493 of 593
NPCArch-Militant Vedka Dunawski refused to accept her commander-in-chief's betrayal. For six days she shielded herself from the new reality in her quarters, firing at anyone who tried to enter. On the seventh day, having lost an eye and all hope, a scabbed and broken creature emerged from her quarters and obediently returned to her post as Arch-Militant.
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Entry point 494 of 593
NPCFor a long time, Arch-Militant Vedka Dunawski managed to strategically distribute the protectorate's vanishingly small military forces, but the poor discipline of her recruits compelled her constant presence on the battlefield. During one such operation, Vedka was killed by her own regiment's misaligned gun.
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Entry point 495 of 593
NPCIncendia Chorda never returned from her expedition through the dimensional gate with Rogue Trader von Valancius. Her dynasty lost its leader.
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Entry point 496 of 593
NPCIn the course of her faithful service to the dynasty, Arch-Militant Vedka Dunawski suffered grievous injuries in battle. The Lord Captain bade that she continue to serve, and so, after enduring numerous augmentations, she was elevated to the station of the dynasty's standard-bearer. In her searing zeal, Vedka demanded the von Valancius banner be grafted onto her very spine as a testament that the dynasty would never bow before its foes — in her case, quite literally. Endlessly proclaiming the dynasty's glory through voxes implanted in her throat, she went on to perform many feats, propelled by her devout faith in the God-Emperor and the dynasty, until, deep in her twilight years, she was recognised as a blessed votary. As her final days approached, weakened by decrepitude and unrelenting pain from her implants, Vedka could recall only one thing: the regulations of the Handbook, which she called out until her dying breath.
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Entry point 497 of 593
NPCVedka Dunawski's sacrifice did not go unnoticed by the people of her homeworld. Vedka was remembered as a holy martyr who had given her life for the 32nd Merov Regiment and the Rogue Trader. For decades afterward, her example inspired young soldiers to follow in her footsteps of selfless service.
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Entry point 498 of 593
NPCThe most fearsome of the followers of Chaos controlled by [Name] von Valancius was a beast-like, bloodthirsty fighter — none other than former Arch-Militant Izdrig Batoshski himself.
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Entry point 499 of 593
NPCArch-Militant Izdrig Batoshski led his regiment well into old age. After suffering a crippling battlefield injury and resigning from his high-ranking post, Batoshski met his death on Zarkov as a drill sergeant and the sire of a long line of soldiers.
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Entry point 500 of 593
NPCAfter several years of service, Arch-Militant Izdrig Batoshski died at the hands of one of his finest officers, a devout believer who suspected Izdrig of scepticism about sacred Imperial doctrine.
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Entry point 501 of 593
NPCAfter his death in one of the battles, Izdrig Batoshski became a de facto saint among his people. His likeness, revered as sacred, was rumoured to bring good luck and aid in the fight against one's own weaknesses. For many years after, just speaking his name aloud was believed to be protection against heresy.
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Entry point 502 of 593
NPCSeberian von Valancius was never again seen in the Expanse. His name, however, was raised several more times by the dissatisfied noble houses on Dargonus, who were conspiring to oust the Lord Captain under the pretence of "finding the lost sire." But when the last of those schemers died off, Seberian's return became nothing more than a strange tale once more, the kind that flagship officers would tell each other in their rare moments of leisure.
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Entry point 503 of 593
NPCSeberian von Valancius's ship vanished without a trace in the void beyond the bounds of the protectorate. For some time after, the flagship received Astropathic messages with reports of Seberian's encounters with ominous wonders and inconceivable horrors, but after a few years they stopped as well. In the final dispatch, the resurrected ancestor of House von Valancius promised to deliver a farewell gift to the dynasty, but his ship never again crossed the borders of space known to Humanity.
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Entry point 504 of 593
NPCRumours of the Rogue Trader's love of physical augmentations spread far and wide across the Koronus Expanse. The sacred healing machines installed on the ship allowed many of the Lord Captain's entourage to continue their service to the protectorate, either willingly or unwillingly.
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Entry point 505 of 593
NPCThe upgraded implantation throne lifted the veil on the preservation of life in metal for the Genetors of the Sector Bionica. The heretical research turned the renegade Tech-Priests into immortal monsters fuelled by the humours of still-living servants. After that, no injury was incurable on the flagship — but the price was often the patient's soul and freedom.
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Entry point 506 of 593
NPCThe savage Calligos Winterscale never returned from the campaign he embarked on with the Rogue Trader. No one knew the cause of the indomitable warrior's demise.
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Entry point 507 of 593
NPCThe officers connected to the ship soon began to hear dark messages amid the vox static. Driving them insane, the shackles of corruption forever bound the officers to the bulkheads of the ship, which in turn became a leviathan trapped in endless torment, plagued by warp spawn. After that, the principles by which the vessel's systems operated eluded the comprehension of any mind.
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Entry point 508 of 593
NPCThe plague only accelerated what awaited the ship under the leadership of the champion of the Dark Gods. The whispers that poured forth from every crevice of the flagship turned ordinary workers into alloys of metal and corruption, unswervingly loyal to their only master.
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Entry point 509 of 593
NPCThe grateful servants of the Machine God revered the Rogue Trader as a holy votary, enshrining his/her name in the Lingua-Technis. Before long, it entered common parlance among the Expanse's Tech-Priests, becoming a byword for "capable layperson" and igniting a firestorm of theological controversy. After cycles of intense debate and investigation, the term was traced back to the Genetors of the Sector Bionica on the Rogue Trader's vessel. The practice was condemned as blasphemous, born of the Tech-Priests' hubris in daring to distort the sacred language of the Omnissiah. The name was ordered purged from the blessed codices of the Lingua-Technis, yet, years later, it still echoed within the binharic whispers of the Expanse's priesthood.
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Entry point 510 of 593
NPCHaving chosen to follow the precepts of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Rogue Trader permitted only select officers to receive augments. The elite were granted access to the very best implants, while humble subjects perished from their injuries on the lower decks. Bloody uprisings among the common folk occurred more frequently; however, the enforcers, whose bodies had been touched by the blessing of the Machine God, suppressed them brutally and effectively. Key personnel, equipped with the best cranial interfaces, could connect to the ship's systems, thereby increasing its combat effectiveness — vox officers linked to the ship instantly relayed information to gunners and artillerymen, who had become akin to components in the weapon systems.
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Entry point 511 of 593
NPCThe ship suffered huge losses, including a large portion of the working population, as well as both chirurgeons, who had tried in vain to save those who still had hope.
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Entry point 512 of 593
NPCThe installation of implants in ordinary people became so widespread in the protectorate that the practice ceased to be an oddity. The devotion of the common folk, eager to repay their ruler for the resources he/she had spent on them, enabled the dynasty to rebuild and strengthen many of its possessions. But the number of incidents caused by negligently installed or poorly maintained implants soared. The lower decks of the Rogue Trader's flagship teemed with half-decayed subjects seeking salvation in yet more metal. The culmination of this was a plague epidemic that cut down thousands upon thousands of unfortunates in one ill-fated warp jump.
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Entry point 513 of 593
NPCThe upgraded implantation throne lifted the veil on the eternal preservation of life in metal for the Genetors of the Sector Bionica. The sacred technologies from Altar-Templum-Calixis-Ext-17 allowed the Tech-Priests to create augments that could completely replace the delicate processes of the human body and save lives even in the most hopeless cases. Rumours of the miraculous archeotech spread throughout the Expanse, drawing both pilgrims seeking salvation and those who wished to seize control of the relic. Soon, a sect known as the Cult of Inexhaustible Progress emerged from among those augmented by the Throne — its followers staged a mutiny and attempted to forcibly augment other crew members. After the cultists' demise, their conduct was deemed a sign of madness in the throne's machine spirits, and the throne was declared anathema and destroyed.
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Entry point 514 of 593
NPCThe upgraded implantation throne lifted the veil on the preservation of life in metal for the Genetors of the Sector Bionica. The blessing of the Machine God was granted to many worthy officers, clerics, and functionaries aboard the flagship. The sacred iron that had replaced their weak flesh ensured that their service was long and true, despite causing great suffering to its bearers.
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Entry point 517 of 593
NPCThe protectorate became engulfed in a brutal fight for the throne that made Calligos's violent deeds seem tame in comparison.
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Entry point 518 of 593
NPCThe act of treachery perpetrated by the Rogue Trader was so monstrous that it horrified not only humans, but also a civilisation far older. The tombs of the Necrontyr, scattered across the countless worlds of the Expanse, revealed hordes of their soulless inhabitants to the galaxy. Soon enough, what was left of the von Valancius protectorate became a dead, lifeless battlefield. The confrontation between the fragments of a once great empire and a transcendental monster shook the galaxy to its core once more.
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Entry point 521 of 593
NPCA few years later, the Expanse quaked under the onslaught of enemy hordes. Heeding the orders of their arrogant overlords, the tombs of a long-dead civilisation awakened to bring the inferior races back into submission and rule with an iron hand. Victory over an enemy that knew neither weakness nor fear drove both the Winterscale and Chorda dynasties to the brink of extinction. Only the von Valancius protectorate survived the xenos unscathed, and rumours that the Rogue Trader had somehow managed to negotiate with their leaders plagued the minds of the survivors for decades after.
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Entry point 522 of 593
NPCNomos left the von Valancius flagship, bound for the icy hands of their new master. Their brief life was caught in an eternal loop and put on display among the countless other exhibits of the mysterious Museion, which had become a tomb for many other unique wonders of the universe.
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Entry point 523 of 593
NPCThe legends of how Lord/Lady von Valancius challenged an ancient, indescribable evil and vanquished it in battle spread throughout the Koronus Expanse long after, passing from mouth to mouth and gaining more incredible details with each telling. The legacy of House von Valancius was restored, and its power was strengthened a hundredfold. The truth, however, was that many years later, Trazyn the Infinite returned to the Expanse, this time with the sole purpose of claiming the legendary Rogue Trader as his complete and undisputed possession. The outcome of that confrontation is unknown, and the latest mentions of it have been lost to time's abyss.
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Entry point 524 of 593
NPCCaptain Zorael, who miraculously escaped a terrible fate through the intervention of the Emperor's anointed, survived the fall of Museion and returned to his brothers-in-arms. The knowledge he brought with him to the Chapter aided the xenos slayers in the battles to come.
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NPCThe temple found by the Rogue Trader deep within Zarkov's root system became the planet's secret curse. Psykers were banished to its depths to lure the Drovers there and trap them inside, sealing off the tomb. This sacrifice was considered sacred, and the monsters became a symbol of the planet itself and its riches.
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Entry point 527 of 593
NPCFor several cycles, nothing was heard about the mysterious temple that the Rogue Trader had discovered deep in Zarkov's root system. But soon, rumours of the silent shadows that would creep out at night to hunt and skin their victims alive spread across the planet once more.
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Entry point 528 of 593
NPCWhen the news of the Rogue Trader's betrayal reached the inhabited systems, it was the Navy's grim duty to exact retribution on the protectorate. It was they who defeated the fleet in Dargonus's orbit and carried out the purge of the capital world. All across the Expanse, patrols hunted for the ships bearing the once glorious crest of von Valancius.
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Entry point 529 of 593
NPCLiege Tocara, under a secret oath of loyalty to the Rogue Trader, slowly but surely corrupted the station. During the restoration of the magnificent statue of the God-Emperor, his craftsmen introduced faults in the structure that were invisible to the naked eye. Yet, years later, Astropaths noticed that the light of the Astronomican was greatly dimmed around Footfall.
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Entry point 530 of 593
NPCThe Battalion of the Nameless Last, as the tomb guards came to be known, were considered heroes and their deeds immortalised in songs passed down the generations. They were the ones who would bear the first blow, many years later, when the Necrons found a way to break free from their tomb. Fighting to the last warrior, the battalion held back the enemy's onslaught long enough for the dynasty's forces to mobilise and launch a counter-attack.
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Entry point 531 of 593
NPCThe Battalion of the Nameless Last, as the tomb guards came to be known, were considered heroes and their deeds immortalised in songs passed down the generations. They were the ones who would bear the first blow, many years later, when the Necrons found a way to break free from their tomb. Fighting to the last warrior, the battalion held back the enemy's onslaught long enough for the dynasty's forces to mobilise and launch a counter-attack.
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Entry point 532 of 593
NPCThe Battalion of the Nameless Last, as the tomb guards came to be known, were considered heroes and their deeds immortalised in songs passed down the generations. After forging a strong alliance with the Ordo Xenos, they continued their eternal vigil. The support of the agents of the Golden Throne helped minimise losses and repel each onslaught of the Flayed Ones whenever they broke free, and some who served in the Nameless Last were later recruited to the ranks of the Inquisition.
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Entry point 533 of 593
NPCPart of the destroyed world of Zarkov is believed to still drift in the void of the Koronus Expanse. It is said that slumbering deep within it is a cursed lump of the ancient temple of the Necrons infected with the terrible Flayer virus.
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Entry point 534 of 593
NPCThe Miraculous Fusion Reactor was handed over by the Rogue Trader to the blessed abode of Altar-Templum-Calixis-Ext-17. The tech-ascetics lavished the archeotech machine with great reverence and tireless ministrations, turning the might of the Motive Force that filled it to the service of the Machine God. The Reactor's presence had a beneficial effect on the development of the station, which went on to become a thriving bastion of the Cult Mechanicus within several years.
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Entry point 535 of 593
NPCAfter being given to Trazyn the Infinite by Rogue Trader von Valancius, the C'tan Shard vanished without a trace along with its new owner. And it seemed that all the calamities heralded for the Koronus Expanse with the Star God's impending awakening vanished along with them.
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Entry point 536 of 593
NPCGenetor Ferrenz, who remained in charge of the Sector Bionica, came to better understand Vivisector Martinax after the chirurgeon was fitted with a cortical implant. By their combined efforts, they salvaged many lives. Assisting in the Genetor's research, the Vivisector contributed to what would become one of the most exhaustive collections of treatises on the nature of augmentation in the Koronus Expanse. Following Martinax's passing, Ferrenz extracted his cortical implant and ceremonially integrated it into his own cranium as a mark of respect to the layman.
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NPCZarkov was the last to fall. Loyal to the dynasty of traitors until the very end, the Zarkovians met their deaths as they had lived their lives — with their heads held high and weapons in their hands.
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Entry point 539 of 593
NPCJae visited Eogunn often, spending time engaging in philosophical conversations and discussing fascinating xenos finds, and over the years, the unusual friendship between the Cold Trader and the Manipulus only grew stronger. One day, at the end of yet another visit, Jae left the laboratory without her neck augment — and for the first time in many years, she drew a deep breath into reconstructed organic lungs.
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Entry point 540 of 593
NPCVladaym Tocara ended his days as a maintenance servitor on a janitorial team, losing his life due to an error by a technomat who sent him to clean a compartment scheduled for decompression. The technomat received a penance of seven electro-whippings and a fine equal to his annual pay as punishment for negligent handling of property.
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Entry point 541 of 593
NPCUpon learning of Eogunn's schism, the Tech-Interrogator Brasswhisper sought out his former colleague in person and challenged him to a theological debate. It is said that their dispute lasted several cycles, and the walls of the tech-cathedral sparked and reverberated from the binharic arias and arguments that filled the Noosphere. So powerful were the assertions made that Eogunn's followers splintered — many renounced his teachings and took up arms against those who remained faithful. The conflict raged so fiercely that it brought the tech-cathedral crashing down, claiming the lives of thousands of Tech-Priests. Eogunn never paused in his debate with Brasswhisper for a single second, and only he emerged from beneath the rubble. After offering a brief litany in memory of his brother in service, Eogunn buried him in accordance with custom and set out on new wanderings.
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Entry point 542 of 593
NPCVladaym Tocara spent six Terran years in the position of janitor, and then senior janitor, before one day dying after accidentally getting stuck in a compartment scheduled for decompression. Vladaym's coworkers insisted that he would have definitely known about the planned procedure.
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Entry point 543 of 593
NPCEven after Incendia's death, Footfall could not find peace. Religious leaders and commanders of confessional units kept up the order she had established with zeal. A great tribunal, akin to the one that Incendia held, now took place every Terran year. And every year it was preceded by the rioting of exhausted and embittered citizens.
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Entry point 544 of 593
NPCHaving walked a thorny path by the Rogue Trader's side, Yrliet met her end on an altar as an offering to She Who Thirsts. Her soul was wounded by the Lord Captain's monstrous betrayal, but the suffering did not last long — the dark deity soon consumed her.
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Entry point 545 of 593
NPCMarazhai Aezyrraesh, also known as the Tempest's Doom, spent several years with the Rogue Trader, filling the entire crew with terror. However, with time, his restless and ambitious nature got the better of him. Having grown weary of the company of mon-keigh, the Drukhari left the ship.
NPCSoon after, the Koronus Expanse saw the rise of a new mercenary group — a motley army of humans and xenos led by a bloodthirsty and ruthless Drukhari leader.
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Entry point 546 of 593
NPCAfter the victory on Epitaph, Argenta left the Rogue Trader. An insatiable flame burned brighter and brighter in her soul, hungry for vengeance, and so the sister embarked on her own personal crusade. At first, she hunted and exterminated the remaining followers of the Final Dawn, then she pursued those who had abetted them, and then anyone in whom she saw a hint of heresy. Even when she directed her wrath against entire cities, no power could stop Argenta, clad in her sacred armour. She left a trail of fire and blood across the Expanse, a trail that ended on Salis Prime. No one knows why the sister returned for a third time to the planet where she had found her relic, but, after descending to its surface, she mysteriously vanished.
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Entry point 547 of 593
NPCMany members of the conclave perished during the tragic events that accompanied the return of the Messiah of Discontinuing the Cycle. The hierarchical chain raised Magos Dominus Opticon-22 to the highest circle of leadership. He remained there for more than a century until he was deposed and disposed of, charged with attempting to revive the anathematised schism.
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Entry point 548 of 593
NPCThe dimensional gate leading to the Necron Tomb Worlds was sealed, and not a soul knew what transpired on the other side. But now and then, rumours came from the fringes of systems settled by Humanity, rumours of sickle-shaped ships that appeared and disappeared suddenly, without showing any signs of hostility... yet.
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Entry point 549 of 593
NPCThe corrupted harvest from Janus was reaped in Footfall's agro-chapels. The food cooked from it sowed the seeds of corruption among the station's citizens and bred voracity in all things. Hedonistic cults appeared seemingly out of nowhere all over the station, the most prominent among them being the Cult of the Blessed Harvest. It took it upon itself to cultivate tainted crops so that everyone could taste the fruit of true faith.
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Entry point 550 of 593
NPCMaster Helmsman Ravor diligently executed his duties until his dying day without once succumbing to sleep's sweet embrace. Only when a piece of shell penetrated the bridge's armoured hull and was stopped by the stern officer's unyielding chest did he finally know rest, leaning against his trusty helm.
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Entry point 551 of 593
NPCThe first command that Ryzza issued after her miraculous rescue on Footfall was the complete extermination of all worshippers of the Dark Gods among the Fellowship of the Void. The old pirate wanted to find another way for her people to survive. The former renegades hoped to live by the law working as mercenaries and traders. When it seemed they were finally on the path to a peaceful life, the Imperial Navy conducted a flash raid and destroyed all their ships. Those who survived the bloodbath were publicly hanged.
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Entry point 552 of 593
NPCAs their enemies' activities ramped up, the Fellowship of the Void required more powerful allies. Old Ryzza, with other pirates following suit, embraced the blasphemous doctrine of the Dark Gods, and her ships became immune to the damage caused by harsh warp storms. If prior accusations of the pirates' widespread worship of the Ruinous Powers had been wildly exaggerated, with every passing year they became closer to the truth.
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Entry point 553 of 593
NPCThe shrewd Gaprak family found patronage among the servants of the Omnissiah. Many of its members were granted the posthumous honour of becoming servo-skulls, and Vicent Gaprak even rose to the rank of Magos.
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Entry point 554 of 593
NPCThe nauseating breath of Grandfather Nurgle poisoned the sermons of Reverend Hieronymus. Preaching the omnipresence of rot and taint, he no longer called for purification but tormented the souls of his flock instead. Fallen into despair and craving solace, his people were willing to bow to any force that could promise peace and relief from their suffering.
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Entry point 555 of 593
NPCAbelard Werserian witnessed the monstrous "ascension" of his lord/lady and led the futile attempt to destroy the C'tan Shard. He died with Theodora's name on his lips — no longer deeming [Name] von Valancius worthy of being his Lord Captain, he devoted his last desperate act to the one he had revered all his life.
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Entry point 556 of 593
NPCVladaym, who had formerly stayed clear of those suspected of heresy and dealings with corrupted goods, changed his mind with time. The Mission's ships not only brought contraband to different worlds, but they also transferred suspicious individuals clutching books bound in strange hide. Not everyone liked it, but no one was brave enough to challenge the orders of the terrifying Vackemo.
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Entry point 557 of 593
NPCThe Drusians who tried to oppose the corruption were slaughtered and banished from Footfall. Yet many preachers were enticed by the absence of authority. Staining their black robes with wine and blood, they started giving mock pardons and imposing penances on their new heretic brethren.
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Entry point 558 of 593
NPCStrict abidance by the law and devotion to the Imperial Creed brought great renown to the Rogue Trader. Every planetary turn on every world in the sector, thousands of prayers were offered up to the Golden Throne praising the name of the Guardian of the Koronus Expanse.
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Entry point 559 of 593
NPCThe unholy blessing of the Dark Gods fell on the shoulders of the Rogue Trader, showing everyone that he/she was their champion, destined to bring the Expanse under their rule. But it is well known that the favour of the lords of the warp is fickle.
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Entry point 560 of 593
NPCPoorhouses opened by the order of the Rogue Trader saved many hungry and homeless from death. Unfortunately, this disrupted the station's delicate ecosystem. No longer freezing to death in empty compartments or tormented by epidemics, those who lived in poverty on Footfall began to choke the station, leading to a sharp rise in crime: organ traders, illegal augmetic specialists, and savage gangs of Anvers proliferated.
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Entry point 561 of 593
NPCPulled between various forces that were desperate to control the Rogue Trader, His/Her Lord/Ladyship managed to walk the fine line between fanaticism, heresy, and becoming a heartless monster. Each force was either an ally or an enemy, but none were his/her master. [Name] von Valancius served only him/herself and his/her dynasty. Everything else was either a resource or a trophy.
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Entry point 562 of 593
NPCThe nobility on Dargonus lost all its power when neighbours of the protectorate, enraged by the Rogue Trader's betrayal, came to tear it asunder.
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Entry point 563 of 593
NPCThe Farseer Muaran led the now sparse army of those who had once been given sanctuary on Janus into battle. Their time in the den of evil had taken too many of them and filled Muaran's soul with despair. The Aeldari's sorcery was powerless, and he heard only the mocking laughter of She Who Thirsts as he watched the souls of his kin be consumed by the insatiable deity. Then he too vanished into her hideous maw.
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Entry point 564 of 593
NPCThe Drivestem family used their connections in the Kasballica Mission and became calculating and unscrupulous dealers who spurned the law. Few noticed the change.
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Entry point 565 of 593
NPCThe Imperium could not forgive such insolent deviation from the order prescribed by Holy Terra. The von Valancius dynasty was accused of the seditious formation of their own empire. An invasion fleet gathered in the Calixis Sector, and the young utopia did not outlive its creator.
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Entry point 566 of 593
NPCGazing upon the drained and crippled worlds, the Rogue Trader saw innumerable opportunities for the growth of his/her dynasty. From the ashes of decades of relative peace, a new ambitious power was set to rise.
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Entry point 567 of 593
NPCHaving tamed a deity, the von Valancius dynasty became the dominant power in the Expanse. Of course, news of the horrible monster that [Name] von Valancius was using to terrorise the entire sector would sooner or later reach the Imperium and prompt a punitive expedition, but... the Rogue Trader was given plenty of time to prepare.
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Entry point 568 of 593
NPCThe entire Expanse heard of the Rogue Trader's betrayal. His/Her punishment was swift. Retaliatory strikes fell on the von Valancius protectorate from all sides, obliterating it in the blink of an eye. But did that trouble its former ruler? Unlikely...
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Entry point 569 of 593
NPCAfter losing Ryzza and her closest associates, the Fellowship of the Void soon fell into a bloody and messy succession crisis. The fighting was so brutal, there could be no doubt that whoever came out of it the victor would be a much greater threat to the Expanse than the reckless deceased pirate ever was.
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Entry point 570 of 593
NPCAs the years passed, Master Helmsman Ravor's ill temper became even more unbearable. Continuing his never-ending watch on the bridge, he tormented any member of the crew whom he deemed not sufficiently diligent in fulfilling their duties. Holding the helm with his many hands, he woefully pronounced grim prophecies, filling hearts with despair.
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NPCThe new regime on Footfall was less harsh than Chorda's dictatorship, but it still managed to give the station the appearance of a lawful colony of the Imperium. After years of persecution, the crime lords realised that it was more profitable to make thrones legally, and so they installed themselves in high-ranking positions among the station's wardens and bureaucrats. But this change only increased their greed and thirst for blood.
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Entry point 572 of 593
NPCThe unit bearing the name Abel Haneumann was granted a pardon for his participation in the schism. Abel spent the rest of his days in monastic solitude on station Altar-Templum-Calixis-Ext-17. Not bothered by unwanted voices, he gave himself fully to the passion of statistical augury and the creation of binharic harmonics. His liturgies were performed in machine cathedrals and were regarded as beautiful hymns to the Omnissiah, even if somewhat unorthodox due to a certain liveliness not characteristic of mechanist hymns to the Deus Mechanicus.
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Entry point 573 of 593
NPCThe unit bearing the name Abel Haneumann did not follow Pasqal. No longer needed by his ambitious comrade, he was discarded and left behind. While en route to station Altar-Templum-Calixis-Ext-17, Abel was captured by pirates and forced to toil as a technomat. The day the Imperial Navy destroyed his pirate ship prison marked the end of his silent torment.
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Entry point 574 of 593
NPCWith the backing of the Kasballica Mission, Octaviana became the new Liege of Footfall. All those who opposed her leadership died in an accident when promethium canisters on the Adeptus Amasecus suddenly detonated in the middle of negotiations between crime lords about the station's future. Octaviana was unharmed. She had left the ship several minutes before the explosion... purely by chance. She opened a new bar on an asteroid previously known as the Liege's palace.
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Entry point 575 of 593
NPCThe Edge of Daybreak, the Greater Daemon who turned Eufrates II into his lair, provided guidance and counsel to His/Her Lord/Ladyship, revealing the intricate will of the Lord of Change and warning him/her about threats. This remained so until the Path changed and [Name] von Valancius and the Edge of Daybreak became enemies vying for power in the Expanse. In the raging warp, nothing is forever, and no alliance is strong.
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Entry point 576 of 593
NPCNo longer secluded and forlorn, Foulstone turned into the spiritual centre of the Expanse, clad in gold and power. Rulers went there to be anointed for greatness, criminals for penance, and the righteous for encouragement, and there was no end to them in sight.
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Entry point 577 of 593
NPCOf course, the corrupting influence of the Rogue Trader tainted each spark of faith that was kindled on Foulstone, turning the zealots into tools and the gullible into traitors. Donning the masks of piety, despicable demagogues lead their flock into the abyss of heresy.
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Entry point 578 of 593
NPCThe Farseer Muaran led his kin in battle against the mon-keigh. He was not able to overcome his hatred for them, and he washed the bitterness of loss from his heart with blood before leaving the transformed Lilaethan behind.
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Entry point 579 of 593
NPCThe Drusian preachers dwelling on the station turned into grim ascetics, ridden with ulcers and swelling with disease. Many voidsmen looking for redemption were attracted to the new forbidding image of the cult. Rumours abounded that the recurring technical breakdowns poisoning entire asteroids were the work of the Drusians, who led their flock through suffering to faith. A new faith.
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Entry point 580 of 593
NPCNaturally, the servants of the von Valancius dynasty and people under the Rogue Trader's protection were safe from the Fellowship of the Void's attacks... mostly.
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Entry point 581 of 593
NPCAfter returning to the place where his/her path as a Rogue Trader had begun, [Name] von Valancius founded a new capital on Rykad Minoris, asserting his/her right to rule over any manifestation of the warp's horror in the Koronus Expanse.
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Entry point 582 of 593
NPCBy some bizarre miracle, Marazhai Aezyrraesh managed to survive the Rogue Trader's betrayal on Epitaph. Even more fortuitously, he was picked up by a Drukhari raiding ship and delivered to Commorragh. Acting strangely calm and quiet, the former Dracon of the Reaving Tempest was granted an audience with one of the Archons of the Kabal of the Black Heart. What they discussed that day is unknown, but Marazhai left the Archon's palace with an armed squad and embarked on a hunt for a secret trophy.
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Entry point 583 of 593
NPCIncendia Chorda's crusade put an end to the existence of this corrupted place. With heavy losses, her fleet broke into the system, defeated the warp spawn there, and bombed every world to ash with cyclonic torpedoes. A decade later, the warp tear in realspace closed.
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Entry point 584 of 593
NPCBrave House Werserian returned to its roots and engaged in void trade. Their renowned ship, the Lady Theodora, embarked on many grand voyages and took part in astounding expeditions to the limits of uncharted systems.
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Entry point 585 of 593
NPCHowever, close friendship with the von Valancius dynasty did not stop pirate squadrons from pillaging the protectorate's treasures when fleets of outraged neighbours arrived to take their vengeance.
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Entry point 586 of 593
NPCRealising that things were changing in the Expanse, Kasballica agents limited their appetites and restricted their trade to goods of moderate risk. They secretly turned the most dangerous trophies over to the Inquisition, alongside information about their suspicious suppliers. Information about this shadowy alliance was tightly controlled.
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Entry point 587 of 593
NPCWhen news of the death of the master of flesh reached him, Shairenkhei sent what was left of the Aeldari ships to the most distant stars of the Expanse. There, hidden from human eyes with xenotech and sorcery, the Aeldari carried on their humble existence and even managed to establish a few contacts among trusted mon-keigh, who helped the xenos in return for knowledge and technology.
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Entry point 588 of 593
NPCWhen the von Valancius protectorate perished under the retaliatory strikes of resentful citizens of the Expanse, many servants of the Rogue Trader found sanctuary and a new way of life in this powerful organisation. The Kasballica Mission did not forget the kindness shown to it.
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Entry point 589 of 593
NPCMemories of the adversity they suffered and of their fallen home filled the hearts of both commoners and nobles with hatred for the Ruinous Powers. That loathing fuelled the building of a kingdom of intolerance and strict order on New Rykad. Proclaiming prayers to the Emperor, they kept vigilant watch for any signs of corruption in their home and surrounding colonies and regularly embarked on "purging campaigns" on nearby colonies that resembled military invasions.
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Entry point 590 of 593
NPCThe corrupted harvest from Janus was eradicated from Footfall's agro-chapels, but some of it remained in underground nurseries. The starving were ready to commit heinous acts for a handful of food, or even a sip of fermented rotgut. Illegal drinks made from the fruits of Janus sparked sinister rage and a thirst for violence in the hearts of the peasantry, spawning riots and stirring up the worst vices of the common folk.
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Entry point 591 of 593
NPCThe schism of Discontinuing the Cycle engulfed the entire Cognisance Fleet, and soon the civil war was over. Disregarding the commandments of their forefathers, the Explorators started down a dangerous path of new comprehension, creation, and revision of procedures and algorithms. The fleet was united once more, and in its unity, it was ready to stare down any horrors standing in the way of the Catechism of Maintenance and Operation.
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Entry point 592 of 593
NPCCassia Orsellio died on Epitaph, and her death became the undoing of her noble House. In her last moments, tormented by fear and sorrow, she let out a scream so full of despair that every Navigator of her bloodline heard it. Echoing her cry, they all lost their minds in that instant and became loathsome monstrosities. House Orsellio fell, and its inhabitants were buried in the ruins.